Brain Evolution in the News
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Domestication causes smaller brain size in dogs than in the wolf: Study challenges notion
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-domestication-smaller-brain-size-dogs.html
Friday, 26 July 2024
Size doesn't matter for mammals with more complex brains, according to new study
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-size-doesnt-mammals-complex-brains.html
Friday, 31 May 2024
A Change in The Development of Our Ovaries Could Have Led to Bigger Brains
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-change-in-the-development-of-our-ovaries-could-have-led-to-bigger-
brains
Monday, 29 April 2024
Scientists Discover T. Rex Less Intelligent Than Believed
https://www.miragenews.com/scientists-discover-t-rex-less-intelligent-than-1224082/
Friday, 22 March 2024
What a big group of ancient brains could teach us about evolution
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/68606720.amp
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Humans have been speaking for a lot longer than we originally thought
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/human-language-study-origins-speaking-
b2514451.html
Saturday, 30 December 2023
Human brain cells put much more energy into signaling
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/human-brain-cells-put-much-more-energy-into-signaling/
Friday, 29 December 2023
Brains of newborns aren't underdeveloped compared to other primates, finds new study
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-brains-newborns-underdeveloped-primates.html
Thursday, 28 December 2023
Can We Decode the Language of Our Primate Cousins?
https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/can-we-decode-the-language-of-our-primate-
cousins-382248
Monday, 27 November 2023
Les études sur le cerveau des humains préhistoriques sont-elles fiables ?
https://www.francebleu.fr/emissions/sur-les-traces-de-la-prehistoire/les-etudes-sur-le-cerveau-des-
humains-prehistoriques-sont-elles-fiables-1893682
Monday, 13 November 2023
The Evolution of Mammalian Brain Folding Has Been Revealed
https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/the-evolution-of-mammalian-brain-folding-has-been-revealed-380540
Thursday, 9 November 2023
What makes us human? UT Southwestern uncovers clues behind brain evolution
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2023/11/08/what-makes-us-human-ut-southwestern-uncovers-clues-behind-brain-evolution/
Friday, 13 October 2023
Cellular Map of Entire Brain Reveals What Makes Us Human
https://neurosciencenews.com/cellular-human-brain-map-24940/
Monday, 18 September 2023
Sing Smart: Vocal Learning Linked to Problem Solving Skills and Brain Size
https://scitechdaily.com/sing-smart-vocal-learning-linked-to-problem-solving-skills-and-brain-size/
Monday, 10 July 2023
How Smart Were Dinosaurs? New Studies Fuel the Debate
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-smart-were-dinosaurs-new-studies-fuel-the-debate/
Thursday, 6 July 2023
All animal intelligence was shaped by just 5 leaps in brain evolution
https://theconversation.com/all-animal-intelligence-was-shaped-by-just-5-leaps-in-brain-evolution-208753?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Octopuses shown to map their visual landscape much like humans do
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-octopuses-shown-visual-landscape-humans.html
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Octopuses Can Rewire Their Brains to Brave Chilly Waters
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopuses-edit-their-rna-in-response-to-water-temperature-changes-180982357/
Friday, 16 June 2023
Cognitive archaeology, body cognition, and the evolution of visuospatial perception
https://paleoneurology.wordpress.com/2023/05/03/cognitive-archaeology-body-cognition-and-the-evolution-of-visuospatial-perception/
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Canine Brain Atlas Sheds Light on Evolution of Human Brain Function
https://neurosciencenews.com/dog-brain-atlas-evolution-23355/
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
Monday, 5 June 2023
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
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
How evolution has influenced the shape of the brain
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-evolution-brain.html
Monday, 13 March 2023
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
Friday, 10 March 2023
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
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Human temporal lobes are not very large in comparison with other primates
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-human-temporal-lobes-large-comparison.html
Friday, 3 March 2023
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
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
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
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
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
Friday, 3 February 2023
Lab-grown ancient nose receptors reveal how our ancestors smelled
https://newatlas.com/biology/neanderthal-denisovan-odor-receptors-smell-sensitivity/
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Scientist Accidentally Discovers The Oldest Brain of Any Vertebrate
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-accidentally-discovers-the-oldest-brain-of-any-vertebrate
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
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
Sunday, 8 January 2023
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/
Friday, 6 January 2023
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/
Friday, 23 December 2022
Study finds a striking difference between neurons of humans and other mammals
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/human-and-mammal-neurons
Monday, 12 December 2022
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
Thursday, 27 October 2022
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.
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
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/
Thursday, 8 September 2022
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
Friday, 12 August 2022
No, the Human Brain Did Not Shrink 3,000 Years Ago
https://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-brain-shrinkage-21195/
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
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
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Connectivity of Language Areas Unique in the Human Brain
https://neurosciencenews.com/language-connectivity-evolution-20959/
Saturday, 25 June 2022
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
Saturday, 4 June 2022
Primates and Non-primates Differ in the Architecture of Their Neurons
https://neurosciencenews.com/primates-non-primate-axon-20736/
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
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
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