Brain Evolution in the News
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
A tiny skull fossil suggests primate brain areas evolved separately
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/skull-fossil-suggests-primate-brain-areas-evolved-separately
Thursday, 8 August 2019
Going the Distance: Brain Cells for 3D Vision Discovered
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/41631/20190628/going-the-distance-brain-cells-for-3d-vision-discovered.htm
Friday, 19 July 2019
How mammals' brains evolved to distinguish odors is nothing to sniff at
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-mammals-brains-evolved-distinguish-odors.html
Thursday, 27 June 2019
How did elephants evolve such a large brain? Climate change is part of the answer
https://theconversation.com/how-did-elephants-evolve-such-a-large-brain-climate-change-is-part-of-the-answer-119354
Friday, 21 June 2019
Bats’ brains sync up when they socialise, study finds
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bat-brain-waves-activity-autism-social-cues-cell-study-a8967291.html
Wednesday, 12 June 2019
Study of olfactory bulb ratio in modern birds suggests dinosaurs may have had strong sense of smell
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-olfactory-bulb-ratio-modern-birds.html
A Musical Brain May Help Us Understand Language And Appreciate Tchaikovsky
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/10/730611589/a-musical-brain-may-help-us-understand-language-and-appreciate-tchaikovsky?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr
Friday, 10 May 2019
The Neanderthal Brain—Clues About Cognition
https://www.sapiens.org/column/field-trips/neanderthal-brain/
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
How Researchers Used AI to Better Understand Biological Vision
https://singularityhub.com/2019/05/08/how-researchers-used-ai-to-better-understand-biological-vision/#sm.000016lhq5nszreuir489sswdxv86
The Human Brain Has been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/04/08/human-brains-have-shrunk-since-the-stone-age/#.XNL3oKZ7mWY
Friday, 12 April 2019
I feel you: Emotional mirror neurons found in the rat
https://neurosciencenews.com/emotional-mirror-neurons-rats-11066/
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Monkeys Genetically Edited to Mimic Human Brain Development
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/monkeys-genetically-edited-to-mimic-human-brain-development-65724
Thursday, 21 March 2019
Ancient Human Ancestors May Have Grown Big Brains Scavenging Bone Marrow
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/03/19/isns-human-ancestors-big-brains-meat/
Monday, 11 February 2019
Fat frenzy: did an early taste for bone marrow fuel hominin brain development?
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biolog/fat-frenzy-did-an-early-taste-for-bone-marrow-fuel-hominin-brain-development
Scientists Have Grown Primate Brains-in-a-Dish on an Unprecedented Scale
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-mini-chimp-brains-in-the-lab-to-learn-more-about-human-evolution
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Pioneering brain study reveals ‘software’ differences between humans and monkeys
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00198-7
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Scientists uncover the genetics of monogamy
https://www.healthcanal.com/mental-health-behavior/247435-scientists-uncover-the-genetics-of-monogamy.html
El cerebro humano creció y se desarrolló gracias a estos genes: NOTCH2NL
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/ciencia/actualidad/cerebro-humano-crecio-y-se-desarrollo-gracias-a-estos-genes-notch2nl_12775/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Monday, 14 January 2019
When it comes to bee brains, size does not matter
https://www.earth.com/news/bee-brains-size/
Thursday, 20 December 2018
These Dinosaurs' Noses Made Breathing Complicated for a Very Good Reason
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/578512/?__twitter_impression=
Thursday, 13 December 2018
Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/science/neanderthals-humans-brains-skulls.html
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Research identifies a gene that makes our brains (and those of primates) unique
https://www.zmescience.com/science/primate-brain-genes-92636235/
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/the-evolutionary-mystery-of-gigantic-human-brains/
Monday, 26 November 2018
Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Previously Hidden Region in The Human Brain
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-hidden-region-of-the-human-brain-was-revealed-while-making-an-atlas/amp?__twitter_impression=
Thursday, 22 November 2018
The Woman Who Shaped the Study of Fossil Brains
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-shaped-study-fossil-brains-180968254/
Friday, 19 October 2018
Research gives new insight into the evolution of the nervous system
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-insight-evolution-nervous.html
Neuroscientists Have Found a Difference in Human Brain Cells That Could Help Explain Our Unique Intelligence
https://www.sciencealert.com/human-excitatory-neuron-dendrites-signal-processing-differs-to-rats
Automatisme : un comportement pas si archaïque !
http://www4.cnrs-dir.fr/insb/recherche/parutions/articles2018/t-boraud.html
Sunday, 14 October 2018
What elephants' unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-elephants-unique-brain-mental-abilities.html
Friday, 12 October 2018
Why are humans so much smarter than other primates?
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/09/24/why-are-humans-so-much-smarter-than-other-primates/#
Thursday, 11 October 2018
Elephants Have The Most Neurons. Why Aren't They The Smartest Animals?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/09/12/elephants-have-the-most-neurons-why-arent-they-the-smartest-animals/#77d2bb606afb
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
¿Qué es la autodomesticación?
https://nutcrackerman.com/2018/10/09/que-es-autodomesticacion-what-is-self-domestication/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Non-human primate neuroimaging data may improve understanding of human brain disorders
https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/neuroimaging/
neuroimaging-data-improve-understanding-brain-disorders
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Neanderthal Brains: Bigger, Not Necessarily Better
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/09/21/
Friday, 21 September 2018
What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/octopuses-on-ecstasy-prefer-each-other-to-chewbacca/570763/
Octopuses Do Something Really Strange to Their Genes
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/octopuses-do-something-really-strange-to-their-genes/522024/
Monday, 17 September 2018
Chimpanzee personality traits are linked to brain structure
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-chimpanzee-personality-traits-linked-brain.html
Mammal forerunner that reproduced like a reptile sheds light on brain evolution
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829133422.htm
Friday, 7 September 2018
Scientists Discover A New Type Of Brain Cell In Humans
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2018/08/27/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-brain-cell-in-humans/#6a177c4b3acd
Saturday, 11 August 2018
Primate speech: How some species are 'wired' for talk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-45114322
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