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

‘Big-brained’ mammals may just have small bodies, study suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/28/big-brained-mammals-may-just-have-small-bodies-study-suggests

Brain development is surprisingly similar between humans and other primates

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-brain-surprisingly-similar-humans-primates.html

These Ants Shrink Their Brains for a Chance to Become Queen

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/science/ants-brains-queen.html?smid=tw-share

Animals with weird neurons may rewrite the story of brain evolution

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2274125-animals-with-weird-neurons-may-rewrite-the-story-of-brain-evolution/

Cérebros maiores influenciam tomada de decisões sociais complexas

https://www.natgeo.pt/ciencia/2021/03/cerebros-maiores-influenciam-tomada-de-decisoes-sociais-complexas

A discovery that 'literally changes the textbook'

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-discovery-literally-textbook.html

Early Humans’ Brains Were More Apelike than Modern

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/early-humans-brains-were-more-apelike-than-modern-68649

Waarom een aap geen taal kan leren

https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/waarom-een-aap-geen-taal-kan-leren/

Solving the mammal brain size puzzle

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-mammal-brain-size-puzzle.html

Scientists discover why the human brain is so big

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/24/scientists-discover-why-the-human-brain-is-so-big

Bees have higher brain cell density than birds – but ants don’t

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272200-bees-have-higher-brain-cell-density-than-birds-but-ants-dont/

When our evolutionary ancestors first crawled onto land, their brains only half-filled their skulls

https://theconversation.com/when-our-evolutionary-ancestors-first-crawled-onto-land-their-brains-only-half-filled -their-skulls-157418

New Technique Reveals Genes Underlying Human Evolution

https://neurosciencenews.com/genetics-human-evolution-18056/

Capuchin monkey genome reveals clues to its long life and large brain

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-capuchin-monkey-genome-reveals-clues.html

Using genetic sequencing to determine if bird and mammal brains work the same

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-genetic-sequencing-bird-mammal-brains.html

Neandertalized ‘Mini Brains’ Yield Clues to Modern Human Uniqueness

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neandertalized-mini-brains-yield-clues-to-modern-human-uniqueness/

Scientists splice human genes into monkey brains to make them bigger, smarter

https://nypost.com/2020/11/19/scientists-make-bigger-monkey-brains-using-human-genes/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

Reviewing past neuroscience research that explores the neural mechanisms of aggression

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-neuroscience-explores-neural-mechanisms-aggression.html

The evolution of intelligence: Do we know how to study it?

https://medium.com/@nwiggenhauser/the-evolution-of-intelligence-8b25cc674c87

A Black Biologist Pioneered Animal Intelligence Research, but His Work Was Buried

https://gizmodo.com/a-black-biologist-pioneered-animal-intelligence-researc-1845519880/amp?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&__twitter_impression=true

Why bird brains are more brilliant than anyone suspected

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/why-bird-brains-are-more-brilliant-anyone-suspected

Happiness and the evolution of brain size

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-happiness-evolution-brain-size.html

New neuron type discovered only in primate brains

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-neuron-primate-brains.amp?__twitter_impression=true

Evolutionary and Heritable Axes Shape Our Brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-brain-shape-17093/

Primate brain size does not predict their intelligence

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-primate-brain-size-intelligence.html

Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-conscious-birds-brains.html