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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
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Labels: brain size, fossil, primate

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
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Labels: neuron, vision

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
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Labels: mammal, olfaction, sensory

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
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Labels: climate, elephant, fossil, size

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
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Labels: bat, mammal, social behavior

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
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Labels: bird, dinosaur, olfaction

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
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Labels: human, language, music

Friday, 10 May 2019

The Neanderthal Brain—Clues About Cognition



https://www.sapiens.org/column/field-trips/neanderthal-brain/
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Labels: fossil, hominin

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
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Labels: artificial intelligence, primate, vision

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
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Labels: brain size, fossil, hominin, human

Friday, 12 April 2019

I feel you: Emotional mirror neurons found in the rat


https://neurosciencenews.com/emotional-mirror-neurons-rats-11066/
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Labels: emotion, empathy, rodent, social behavior

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
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Labels: brain size, development, genetics, human, primate

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/
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Labels: brain size, diet, hominin, human

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
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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
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Labels: human, primate

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Pioneering brain study reveals ‘software’ differences between humans and monkeys


https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00198-7
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Labels: human, primate

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
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Labels: genetics

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
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Labels: genetics, human

Monday, 14 January 2019

When it comes to bee brains, size does not matter


https://www.earth.com/news/bee-brains-size/
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Labels: brain size, insect

Thursday, 20 December 2018

These Dinosaurs' Noses Made Breathing Complicated for a Very Good Reason



https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/578512/?__twitter_impression=
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Labels: dinosaur, fossil, olfaction

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
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Labels: fossil, human

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/
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Labels: human

Wednesday, 28 November 2018

The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains


https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/the-evolutionary-mystery-of-gigantic-human-brains/
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Labels: human

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=
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Labels: human

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/
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Labels: fossil

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

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Labels: placozoan

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

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Labels: human, rodent

Automatisme : un comportement pas si archaïque !


http://www4.cnrs-dir.fr/insb/recherche/parutions/articles2018/t-boraud.html

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Labels: executive function

Sunday, 14 October 2018

What elephants' unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities

African elephant bull


https://phys.org/news/2018-08-elephants-unique-brain-mental-abilities.html
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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/#
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Labels: human, primate

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
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Labels: elephant, intelligence, magnitude, mammal, neuron, size

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
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Labels: domestication, human

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Non-human primate neuroimaging data may improve understanding of human brain disorders

Axial MRI scan frame of a brain


https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/neuroimaging/neuroimaging-data-improve-understanding-brain-disorders
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Labels: database, human, neuroimaging, primate

Tuesday, 2 October 2018

Neanderthal Brains: Bigger, Not Necessarily Better



http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/09/21/
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Labels: archaeology, fossil, Neanderthal, size

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/
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Labels: cephalopod, social behavior

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/
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Labels: cephalopod, genetics, molecular biology

Monday, 17 September 2018

Chimpanzee personality traits are linked to brain structure

Chimpanzee with hand on head


https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-chimpanzee-personality-traits-linked-brain.html
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Mammal forerunner that reproduced like a reptile sheds light on brain evolution


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829133422.htm
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Labels: mammal

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
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Labels: genetics, human, immunohistochemistry, mammal, molecular biology, neuron, rodent

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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Labels: language, primate
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