Studying cephalopods may illuminate the evolution of brains of all sorts

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21660955-studying-cephalopods-may-illuminate-evolution-brains-all-sorts-tentacles

Blind cave fish evolved a shrunken brain to save energy

http://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/sep/11/blind-cave-fish-evolved-an-energy-saving-shrunken-brain?CMP=share_btn_tw

Ancient ancestor of humans with tiny brain discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150910084610.htm

Single Molecular Event Holds Key to How We Evolved to Become the Smartest Animals

http://neurosciencenews.com/ptbp1-neuroscience-evolution-brain-2484/

New fossil skulls reveal insights about penguin brain evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150827111635.htm?

Old world monkey had tiny yet complex brain.

http://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-brain-complexity-vctoriapithecus-2193/

Brains, Genes, and Primates: The future of higher research on the planet of the apes

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-brains-genes-primates-future-higher.html

Bats in Flight: How Information About Airflow is Sent to the Brain

http://neurosciencenews.com/bat-flight-touch-evolution-2016

For an Octopus, Seeing the Light Doesn’t Require Eyes

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/science/for-an-octopus-seeing-the-light-doesnt-require-eyes.html?_r=0&referrer=

The fly's neural compass works just like a mammal's

Why would an animal lose its brain?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150424-animals-that-lost-their-brains

Thanks to evolution, blind cave-dwellers are rapidly losing the visual parts of their brains

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/08/thanks-to-evolution-blind-cave-dwellers-are-rapidly-losing-the-visual-parts-of-their-brains/

Did Neurons Evolve Twice?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150325-did-neurons-evolve-twice/

Researchers map switches that shaped the evolution of the human brain

http://app.rdmag.com/news/2015/03/researchers-map-switches-shaped-evolution-human-brain

Brain evolution and disease A Faustian bargain

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21645713-could-key-evolution-human-brain-be-found-dreadful?fsrc=rss%7Csct

'Big Brain' Gene Found in Humans, Not Chimps

http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/big-brain-gene-found-in-humans-not-chimps-150226.htm?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Mouse embryo with big brain: Evolving a bigger brain with human DNA

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150219133104.htm

Complex environments push ‘brain’ evolution

http://bit.ly/1zjqtdd

World’s Oldest Butchery Tools Gave Evolutionary Edge to Human Communication

http://neurosciencenews.com/neuroscience-evolution-communication-tools-1697/

Birdsong and human speech turn out to be controlled by the same genes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/12/11/birdsong-and-human-speech-turn-out-to-be-controlled-by-the-same-genes/

How Did Brains Evolve?

http://io9.com/how-did-brains-evolve-1653897356

The smart mouse with the half-human brain

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26639-the-smart-mouse-with-the-halfhuman-brain.html

Scientists Detect Brain Network That Gives Humans Superior Reasoning Skills

http://neurosciencenews.com/neuropsychology-reasoning-evolution-1593/

Neural 3-D compass discovered in mammalian brain

http://phys.org/news/2014-12-neural-d-compass-mammalian-brain.html

Dogs’ brains may process speech similar to humans’

www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/dogs-brains-may-process-speech-similar-humans

Do animals have emotions?

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/13/if-only-they-could-talk-?CMP=twt_gu

Handedness, a conspicuous but enigmatic human trait, may be shared by other animals. What does it mean for evolution and brain function?

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/40868/title/On-the-Other-Hand/

Humans big brains might be due in part to newly identified protein

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-humans-big-brains-due-newly.html

Unexpected Complexity in a Spider’s Tiny Brain

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/science/mapping-the-tiny-brain-of-the-aristocrat-of-arachnids.html?referrer=&_r=0

Did Stone Age tools forge the beginnings of language?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2791039/did-stone-age-tools-forge-beginnings-language-making-hand-axes-helped-region-brain-associated-speech-evolve.html

Dolphins are not as smart as you think, say scientists. Sorry, dolphin lovers

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/17263/20141007/dolphins-are-not-as-smart-as-you-think-say-scientists-sorry-dolphin-lovers.htm

‘Inner GPS’ Of Bird Brains May Be Better Than That Of Humans

http://www.science20.com/the_conversation/inner_gps_of_bird_brains_may_be_better_than_that_of_humans-146757

Dinosaurs breathed through their noses to cool their BRAINS - and discovered their surroundings using heavy, moist sniffs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2795925/dinosaurs-breathed-noses-cool-brains-assessed-surroundings-using-heavy-moist-sniffs.html#ixzz3GPWk5ZDD

Eye evolution: a snapshot in time

http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=35968.php

Unexpectedly speedy expansion of human, ape cerebellum

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141002123629.htm

Killer whales learn to communicate like dolphins

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141007111055.htm

Monkey leaders and followers have 'specialised brains'

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29013592

Taung Child’s Skull and Brain Not Human-Like in Expansion

http://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-taung-child-neurodevelopment-1262/

New study finds that elephants evolved the most discerning nose of any mammal

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-study-finds-that-elephants-evolved-the-most-discerning-nose-of-any-mammal/2014/07/22/8b715a1e-11b1-11e4-8936-26932bcfd6ed_story.html

Will genomics soon explain the human brain gain?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140709095342.htm

Neanderthals Got Their Big Brains On Their Own

http://io9.com/neanderthals-got-their-big-brains-on-their-own-1593713819

Scientists show how bigger brains could help us see better

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-06-scientists-bigger-brains.html

Lori Marino: Leader of a Revolution in How We Perceive Animals

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/innovators/2014/05/140528-lori-marino-dolphins-animals-personhood-blackfish-taiji-science-world/

Primates and patience -- the evolutionary roots of self control

www.sciencecodex.com/primates_and_patience_the_evolutionary_roots_of_self_control-133591

Humans Evolved Weak Muscles to Feed Brain's Growth, Study Suggests

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140527-brain-muscle-metabolism-genes-apes-science

Strange Findings on Comb Jellies Uproot Animal Family Tree

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140521-comb-jelly-ctenophores-oldest-animal-family-tree-science/

Your brain is smaller than a caveman’s. Here’s why

http://t.co/lc1vukFTau

Whales Can't Taste Anything But Salt

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/05/whales-cant-taste-anything-salt

What’s Special, or Not, about Human Brain Anatomy

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking-back/2014/05/06/whats-special-or-not-about-human-brain-anatomy

Can Whales and Dolphins Make Mental Maps?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/04/24/can-whales-and-dolphins-make-mental-maps

Size Of Animal’s Brain Matters When It Comes To Self-control

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113126675/size-of-animals-brain-matters-when-it-comes-to-self-control/

Why we get autism but our Neanderthal cousins didn't

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25443-why-we-get-autism-but-our-neanderthal-cousins-didnt.html#.U1FA8sfc0wk

'Homo' is the only primate whose tooth size decreases as its brain size increases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140403095415.htm

First Map of Developing Human Brain Created

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-map-of-developing-human-brain-created