Monkey magic: how they adapted to become better communicators

https://reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/monkey-magic-how-they-adapted-to-become-better-communicators

Homo naledi had a brain one-third the size of humans but displayed intelligence far beyond, according to new discovery

https://abcnews.go.com/US/homo-naledi-brain-size-humans-displayed-intelligence-new/story?id=99838407

How evolution has influenced the shape of the brain

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-evolution-brain.html

Imagination makes us human – this unique ability to envision what doesn’t exist has a long evolutionary history

https://theconversation.com/imagination-makes-us-human-this-unique-ability-to-envision-what-doesnt-exist-has-a-long-evolutionary-history-190870

The first wiring map of an insect's brain hints at incredible complexity

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/09/1161645378/scientists-first-wiring-map-fruit-fly-brain-connectome-human-learning

Human temporal lobes are not very large in comparison with other primates

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-human-temporal-lobes-large-comparison.html

Team publishes study of the brain of the Homo erectus fossil with the lowest cranial capacity

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-team-publishes-brain-homo-erectus.html

Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gene-expression-in-neurons-solves-a-brain-evolution-puzzle-20230214/

Scientists recreate brain of largest carnivorous dinosaur with fossils

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dinosaur-brain-fossils-isle-wight-b2281239.html%3famp

We discovered that whale and dolphin brains produce lots of heat. Why it matters

https://theconversation.com/we-discovered-that-whale-and-dolphin-brains-produce-lots-of-heat-why-it-matters-158534?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1617870156

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