Lab-grown ancient nose receptors reveal how our ancestors smelled

https://newatlas.com/biology/neanderthal-denisovan-odor-receptors-smell-sensitivity/

Scientist Accidentally Discovers The Oldest Brain of Any Vertebrate

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-accidentally-discovers-the-oldest-brain-of-any-vertebrate

Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of years of human evolution – new research

https://theconversation.com/fossil-teeth-reveal-how-brains-developed-in-utero-over-millions-of-years-of-human-evolution-new-research-193167

T. Rex May Have Been Intimidatingly Clever With Baboon-Like Brain Capacity

https://www.iflscience.com/t-rex-may-have-been-intimidatingly-clever-with-baboon-like-brain-capacity-66965

Eating meat may not have been as crucial to human evolution as we thought

https://www.popsci.com/science/eating-meat-human-evolution-study/

How humans got a new gene that makes our brains larger

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/how-humans-got-a-new-gene-that-makes-our-brains-larger/

Study finds a striking difference between neurons of humans and other mammals

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/human-and-mammal-neurons

Fossilized brain of 525 million-year-old deep sea worm likely the oldest ever discovered

https://www.livescience.com/oldest-fossilized-brain-worm?utm_term=4E7E8246-032D-41D6-AAB2-E4F0ECFC3B98&utm_campaign=0CFA9D5B-9285-47DF-A018-5ED9E96C0C0B&utm_medium=email&utm_content=040A32F8-D25B-47AB-AAFA-38BCAA0D525C&utm_source=SmartBrief

It Takes a Lot of Elephant Brains to Solve This Mystery

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/science/elephant-brains-trunks-faces.html#:~:text=The%20researchers%20found%20a%20neurological,operate%20the%20entire%20human%20face.

Woodpecker brains process their own tree-drumming as if it's birdsong

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338640-woodpecker-brains-process-their-own-tree-drumming-as-if-its-birdsong/

In the Mind of a Whale

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/in-the-mind-of-a-whale/

Study reveals striking differences in brains of modern humans and Neanderthals

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/08/study-reveals-striking-differences-in-brains-of-modern-humans-and-neanderthals

No, the Human Brain Did Not Shrink 3,000 Years Ago

https://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-brain-shrinkage-21195/

Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 years

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2331652-shape-of-human-brain-has-barely-changed-in-past-160000-years/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1659431121-1

Connectivity of Language Areas Unique in the Human Brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/language-connectivity-evolution-20959/

Ant Brain Complexity Revealed for the First Time at a Cellular Level Using Single Cell Technology

https://neurosciencenews.com/ant-brain-social-20866/

Octopus brain and human brain share the same 'jumping genes'

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-octopus-brain-human-genes.html

Primates and Non-primates Differ in the Architecture of Their Neurons

https://neurosciencenews.com/primates-non-primate-axon-20736/

O que há de especial no cérebro humano que nos torna mais inteligentes que outros animais?

https://zap.aeiou.pt/especial-cerebro-humano-inteligentes-481580

'Mind-boggling' scrambled genome found in octopus and squid. It could explain their smarts.

https://www.livescience.com/squid-octopus-genome-brains

Complex Human Childbirth and Cognitive Abilities a Result of Walking Upright

https://neurosciencenews.com/bipedalism-evolution-birth-20561/

Why human brains were bigger 3,000 years ago

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220503-why-human-brains-were-bigger-3000-years-ago

Anthropology and neuropsychology to study how the brain evolved

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-anthropology-neuropsychology-brain-evolved.html

Ce n’est pas la taille du cerveau qui compte

https://www.numerama.com/sciences/857975-ce-nest-pas-la-taille-du-cerveau-qui-compte.html

Mammals’ bodies outpaced their brains right after the dinosaurs died

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mammal-big-bodies-small-brains-dinosaur-extinction-fossils

Researchers discover genes unique to humans in search for source of our evolutionary distinctiveness

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-genes-unique-humans-source-evolutionary.html

Neuron counts reveal brain complexity evolution in land vertebrates

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-neuron-reveal-brain-complexity-evolution.html

'Very Intelligent Animals': Israeli Researchers Discover Octopuses' Impressive Cognitive Abilities

https://www.haaretz.com/1.10655964

How fossilization preserved a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab’s brain

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossil-ancient-horseshoe-crab-brain

Brains are getting smaller in modern humans

https://www.psypost.org/2021/11/brains-are-getting-smaller-in-modern-humans-62124

Overlooked DNA may be what separates humans from other primates - study

https://www.jpost.com/science/overlooked-dna-may-be-what-separates-humans-from-other-primates-study-684927

Tool Use and Language Skills Are Linked in the Brain: Practicing One Improves the Other

https://neurosciencenews.com/tool-language-brain-19646/

Brainless sponges contain early echoes of a nervous system

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sponge-nervous-system-brain-cells-digest-feed

Was Eating Insects Key to Human Brain Evolution?

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/was-eating-insects-key-to-human-brain-evolution/

Mosaic brain evolution in guppies helps to explain vertebrate cognitive evolution

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-mosaic-brain-evolution-guppies-vertebrate.html

Bird Brain Evolution

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/bird-brain-evolution

A Striking Difference Between Neurons of Humans and Other Mammals

https://neurosciencenews.com/human-neurons-ion-channels-19633/

New Technology Opens Evolutionary Window into Brain Development – NIH Director's Blog

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/10/28/new-technology-opens-evolutionary-window-into-brain-development/

When and why did human brains decrease in size 3,000 years ago? Ants may hold clues

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-human-brains-decrease-size-years.html

A ‘Rosetta Stone’ for neuroscience: new atlas helps define brain cell types

https://www.science.org/content/article/rosetta-stone-neuroscience-new-atlas-helps-define-brain-cell-types#.YV3SryhgaVA.twitter

From Ant Brains, Seeking New Lessons about Human Behavior and Society

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/from-ant-brains-seeking-new-lessons-about-human-behavior-and-society/

Rapidly evolving bits of DNA helped develop the human brain

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2289032-rapidly-evolving-bits-of-dna-helped-develop-the-human-brain/

Thinking without a brain

https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/thinking-without-a-brain/

Human body size shaped by climate, evolutionary study shows

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/08/human-body-size-shaped-by-climate-evolutionary-study-shows

Study of mangrove rivulus fish hints at mechanism for brain evolution of land animals

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-mangrove-rivulus-fish-hints-mechanism.html

Fox-breeding experiment suggests domestication can boost brain size

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2280791-fox-breeding-experiment-suggests-domestication-can-boost-brain-size/

The tamer the cow, the smaller the brain

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/tamer-cow-smaller-brain

Why Did We Evolve Brains In The First Place?

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/why-did-we-evolve-brains-in-the-first-place

Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brains

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/neanderthals-carb-loaded-helping-grow-their-big-brains

Brain's movement control centre may have had key role in our evolution

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2276936-brains-movement-control-centre-may-have-had-key-role-in-our-evolution/#ixzz6u7USYkql