New preprint from us and @emiliapsantos.bsky.social’s #NERC grant, led by Jake Morris, @gadusmo.bsky.social et al
Using an interspecific cross between two #cichlids to think about models of #brainevolution 🐟🧠
Feedback and suggestions welcome! 🙏🏻
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Using an interspecific cross between two #cichlids to think about models of #brainevolution 🐟🧠
Feedback and suggestions welcome! 🙏🏻
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Genetic architecture of cichlid brain morphology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.01.715931v1
April 7, 2026 at 7:31 AM
New preprint from us and @emiliapsantos.bsky.social’s #NERC grant, led by Jake Morris, @gadusmo.bsky.social et al
Using an interspecific cross between two #cichlids to think about models of #brainevolution 🐟🧠
Feedback and suggestions welcome! 🙏🏻
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Using an interspecific cross between two #cichlids to think about models of #brainevolution 🐟🧠
Feedback and suggestions welcome! 🙏🏻
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Three amazing days of the #neurogen2025 conference at @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan. Many thanks to all the participants, speakers and fellow co-organizers. We heard fantastic talks in #neurodevelopment #brainevolution #cancerneuroscience #neuroimmunology #neurodegeneration #neurodiversity
May 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Three amazing days of the #neurogen2025 conference at @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan. Many thanks to all the participants, speakers and fellow co-organizers. We heard fantastic talks in #neurodevelopment #brainevolution #cancerneuroscience #neuroimmunology #neurodegeneration #neurodiversity
Emotions aren’t hardwired—they’re constructed.
Brain evolution shapes feelings, behaviors, and creativity through affective neuroscience.
#Neuroscience #Emotions #Creativity #BrainEvolution
Brain evolution shapes feelings, behaviors, and creativity through affective neuroscience.
#Neuroscience #Emotions #Creativity #BrainEvolution
January 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Emotions aren’t hardwired—they’re constructed.
Brain evolution shapes feelings, behaviors, and creativity through affective neuroscience.
#Neuroscience #Emotions #Creativity #BrainEvolution
Brain evolution shapes feelings, behaviors, and creativity through affective neuroscience.
#Neuroscience #Emotions #Creativity #BrainEvolution
Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out!
@neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex
@neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex
Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies
Neural circuits have evolved to produce cognitive processes that facilitate a species variable behavioural repertoire. Underlying this variation are evolutionary forces, such as selection, that operat...
www.biorxiv.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out!
@neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex
@neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex
Spyro uses the brain evolutionizer on Cinder
by u/snapflame17 on reddit
#brain #brainevolution #dragon #female #genius #intelligence #lizard #madscience #male #reptile #science #smart #spyro #spyrothedragon #thelegendofspyro
by u/snapflame17 on reddit
#brain #brainevolution #dragon #female #genius #intelligence #lizard #madscience #male #reptile #science #smart #spyro #spyrothedragon #thelegendofspyro
June 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Spyro uses the brain evolutionizer on Cinder
by u/snapflame17 on reddit
#brain #brainevolution #dragon #female #genius #intelligence #lizard #madscience #male #reptile #science #smart #spyro #spyrothedragon #thelegendofspyro
by u/snapflame17 on reddit
#brain #brainevolution #dragon #female #genius #intelligence #lizard #madscience #male #reptile #science #smart #spyro #spyrothedragon #thelegendofspyro
📖✨ Congratulations to Dr. Maurizio De Pittà (@mdepitta.bsky.social), Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, for his recent publication in Science!
🔗: linktr.ee/krembil
#Neurogenesis #BrainEvolution #BrainResearch #Neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience
🔗: linktr.ee/krembil
#Neurogenesis #BrainEvolution #BrainResearch #Neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience
February 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
📖✨ Congratulations to Dr. Maurizio De Pittà (@mdepitta.bsky.social), Scientist at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, for his recent publication in Science!
🔗: linktr.ee/krembil
#Neurogenesis #BrainEvolution #BrainResearch #Neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience
🔗: linktr.ee/krembil
#Neurogenesis #BrainEvolution #BrainResearch #Neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience
Our debunking of ‘Dunbar’s number’ in #BiologyLetters has now passed 90 000 downloads. ow.ly/P3gh50EPAxq #brainevolution #socialevolution #primates
ow.ly
January 30, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Our debunking of ‘Dunbar’s number’ in #BiologyLetters has now passed 90 000 downloads. ow.ly/P3gh50EPAxq #brainevolution #socialevolution #primates
Special issue out for the @royalsociety.org meeting I was glad to participate in last year. Lots of interesting articles in here #brainevolution
Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Special issue out for the @royalsociety.org meeting I was glad to participate in last year. Lots of interesting articles in here #brainevolution
Over 100 scientists gathered in Alicante for #ECCN2025 to explore how nervous systems evolve across species. The 11th European Conference on Comparative #Neurobiology featured cutting-edge research from around the world 👇
in.umh-csic.es/en/over-200-...
#BrainEvolution @borrell-lab.bsky.social
in.umh-csic.es/en/over-200-...
#BrainEvolution @borrell-lab.bsky.social
Over 200 experts gather in Alicante for the 11th European Conference of Comparative Neurobiology - IN
From May 6 to 8, 2025, the San Juan Complex in Sant Joan d’Alacant hosted the 11th European Conference on Comparative Neurobiology (ECCN2025). This
in.umh-csic.es
May 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Over 100 scientists gathered in Alicante for #ECCN2025 to explore how nervous systems evolve across species. The 11th European Conference on Comparative #Neurobiology featured cutting-edge research from around the world 👇
in.umh-csic.es/en/over-200-...
#BrainEvolution @borrell-lab.bsky.social
in.umh-csic.es/en/over-200-...
#BrainEvolution @borrell-lab.bsky.social
Interesting article on brain evolution by @mauriciogforero.bsky.social
“The evolution of exceptionally adaptive traits [ie. hominin brain size] may not be primarily caused by selection for them but by developmental constraints”
rb.gy/gwsmyq
#evolution #evodevo #humanevolution #brainevolution
“The evolution of exceptionally adaptive traits [ie. hominin brain size] may not be primarily caused by selection for them but by developmental constraints”
rb.gy/gwsmyq
#evolution #evodevo #humanevolution #brainevolution
June 7, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Interesting article on brain evolution by @mauriciogforero.bsky.social
“The evolution of exceptionally adaptive traits [ie. hominin brain size] may not be primarily caused by selection for them but by developmental constraints”
rb.gy/gwsmyq
#evolution #evodevo #humanevolution #brainevolution
“The evolution of exceptionally adaptive traits [ie. hominin brain size] may not be primarily caused by selection for them but by developmental constraints”
rb.gy/gwsmyq
#evolution #evodevo #humanevolution #brainevolution
Rethinking brain evolution: Birds and mammals took different paths: Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.
#BrainEvolution #Neuroscience #BirdsVsMammals #EvolutionaryBiology #CognitiveScience #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap
#BrainEvolution #Neuroscience #BirdsVsMammals #EvolutionaryBiology #CognitiveScience #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap
Rethinking brain evolution: Birds and mammals took different paths
Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.
www.earth.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Rethinking brain evolution: Birds and mammals took different paths: Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.
#BrainEvolution #Neuroscience #BirdsVsMammals #EvolutionaryBiology #CognitiveScience #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap
#BrainEvolution #Neuroscience #BirdsVsMammals #EvolutionaryBiology #CognitiveScience #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap
Read about my favourite historical scientist, Tilly Edinger, in this article I wrote (in the French Conversation): “Tilly Edinger, ses moulages de cerveaux fossiles et son exil d’Allemagne nazie”
theconversation.com/tilly-edinge... via @FR_Conversation 🧠🇫🇷 #palaeoneurology #brainevolution
theconversation.com/tilly-edinge... via @FR_Conversation 🧠🇫🇷 #palaeoneurology #brainevolution
Tilly Edinger, ses moulages de cerveaux fossiles et son exil d’Allemagne nazie
Tilly Edinger a étudié l’évolution du cerveau grâce à des moulages de fossiles. Son statut de scientifique a contribué à assurer son exil d’Allemagne nazie pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
theconversation.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Read about my favourite historical scientist, Tilly Edinger, in this article I wrote (in the French Conversation): “Tilly Edinger, ses moulages de cerveaux fossiles et son exil d’Allemagne nazie”
theconversation.com/tilly-edinge... via @FR_Conversation 🧠🇫🇷 #palaeoneurology #brainevolution
theconversation.com/tilly-edinge... via @FR_Conversation 🧠🇫🇷 #palaeoneurology #brainevolution
Human neurons evolved to combat stress from brain size, boosting resilience.
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #ParkinsonsDisease #Anthropology
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #ParkinsonsDisease #Anthropology
The Evolution of Big Brains: How Human Neurons Adapted to Size and Stress
Unlocking the Genetic Secrets Behind Human Brain Expansion
www.anthropology.net
November 25, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Human neurons evolved to combat stress from brain size, boosting resilience.
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #ParkinsonsDisease #Anthropology
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #ParkinsonsDisease #Anthropology
Human brains didn’t just evolve—they hacked their own systems. Accelerated, cell-type-specific regulatory evolution reveals how neurons and glial cells specialize for peak performance. Evolution’s most advanced OS update. #Corpowars #BrainEvolution
🧬 Human Brain Evolution
New research reveals rapid, cell-type-specific regulatory evolution in human brains compared to primates, highlighting specialised changes in brain cells that shaped human cognition and behaviour.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#Neuroscience #Evolution #SciComm 🧪
New research reveals rapid, cell-type-specific regulatory evolution in human brains compared to primates, highlighting specialised changes in brain cells that shaped human cognition and behaviour.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#Neuroscience #Evolution #SciComm 🧪
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
January 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Human brains didn’t just evolve—they hacked their own systems. Accelerated, cell-type-specific regulatory evolution reveals how neurons and glial cells specialize for peak performance. Evolution’s most advanced OS update. #Corpowars #BrainEvolution
We highlighted the problem that arbitrarily chosen statistical models provides a heaven for cherry picking here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... Down propagation of "slicing errors" makes it all worse :o #brainevolution?
October 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
We highlighted the problem that arbitrarily chosen statistical models provides a heaven for cherry picking here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... Down propagation of "slicing errors" makes it all worse :o #brainevolution?
Researchers highlight the role of gene expression in the evolution and function of the human brain. #neuroscience #brainevolution #humanbrain #chimpanzeebrain #geneexpression
Gene expression in the human brain: cell types become more specialized, not just more numerous
Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species on Earth. Yet humans share u...
www.sciencedaily.com
January 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Researchers highlight the role of gene expression in the evolution and function of the human brain. #neuroscience #brainevolution #humanbrain #chimpanzeebrain #geneexpression
🧠 Researchers at EARA members @vibai.bsky.social & @cbdresearch.bsky.social have used #AI, trained on human and animal data, to shed light on #BrainEvolution and how this may give clues to #BrainDiseases.
www.eara.eu/post/insight...
www.eara.eu/post/insight...
Insights on human and animal brain cell evolution using AI
Researchers in Belgium have used AI, trained on human and animal data, to shed light on how different brain cells have evolved over time and how this may give clues to brain diseases.The study, at EAR...
www.eara.eu
February 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🧠 Researchers at EARA members @vibai.bsky.social & @cbdresearch.bsky.social have used #AI, trained on human and animal data, to shed light on #BrainEvolution and how this may give clues to #BrainDiseases.
www.eara.eu/post/insight...
www.eara.eu/post/insight...
🚨 New in J. Comp. Neurology: "Larger Fish Have Larger Brains With More Neurons Across but Not Within Cohorts Raised in Different Growth Conditions" 🐟🧠
DOI: doi.org/10.1002/cne....
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #ComparativeNeurobiology #Fish #Plasticity
DOI: doi.org/10.1002/cne....
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #ComparativeNeurobiology #Fish #Plasticity
Larger Fish Have Larger Brains With More Neurons Across but Not Within Cohorts Raised in Different Growth Conditions
Teles et al. propose a model of brain evolution that explains how come fish with larger bodies have larger brains with more neurons across cohorts raised in different growth conditions, while individ....
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🚨 New in J. Comp. Neurology: "Larger Fish Have Larger Brains With More Neurons Across but Not Within Cohorts Raised in Different Growth Conditions" 🐟🧠
DOI: doi.org/10.1002/cne....
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #ComparativeNeurobiology #Fish #Plasticity
DOI: doi.org/10.1002/cne....
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #ComparativeNeurobiology #Fish #Plasticity
4/11 Early ancestors' brains kept growing larger and more complex, but failed to reach maturity in the womb.
Babies emerged less mature than other species - deeply vulnerable and demanding constant care.
#BrainEvolution
Babies emerged less mature than other species - deeply vulnerable and demanding constant care.
#BrainEvolution
August 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
4/11 Early ancestors' brains kept growing larger and more complex, but failed to reach maturity in the womb.
Babies emerged less mature than other species - deeply vulnerable and demanding constant care.
#BrainEvolution
Babies emerged less mature than other species - deeply vulnerable and demanding constant care.
#BrainEvolution
Subtle DNA changes shaped human brain evolution: Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.
#BrainEvolution #Genetics #HumanOrigins #DNAResearch #Neuroscience #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
#BrainEvolution #Genetics #HumanOrigins #DNAResearch #Neuroscience #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Subtle DNA changes shaped human brain evolution
Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.
www.earth.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Subtle DNA changes shaped human brain evolution: Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.
#BrainEvolution #Genetics #HumanOrigins #DNAResearch #Neuroscience #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
#BrainEvolution #Genetics #HumanOrigins #DNAResearch #Neuroscience #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Our Brains Evolved Thanks to… Lead? New Study Surprises Scientists #Science #HealthandMedicine #Neurology #BrainEvolution #Neuroscience #LeadExposure
purescience.news/article?id=9...
purescience.news/article?id=9...
Our Brains Evolved Thanks to… Lead? New Study Surprises Scientists
Scientists found that ancient lead exposure shaped early human evolution. The toxin may have played a surprising role in the development of modern cognition and language. An international team of scientists...
purescience.news
October 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Our Brains Evolved Thanks to… Lead? New Study Surprises Scientists #Science #HealthandMedicine #Neurology #BrainEvolution #Neuroscience #LeadExposure
purescience.news/article?id=9...
purescience.news/article?id=9...
🚨🕊️ New paper: “Homing and feral pigeons differ in hippocampal formation neuron size: a Golgi study”.
Read below 👇
DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s004...
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #EvoDevo #Hippocampus #Brain #Neuroanatomy #AvianBrain
Read below 👇
DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s004...
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #EvoDevo #Hippocampus #Brain #Neuroanatomy #AvianBrain
Homing and feral pigeons differ in hippocampal formation neuron size: a Golgi study - Brain Structure and Function
Artificial selection for behavioural traits can significantly affect the anatomy of brain regions related to the behaviour under selection. The homing pigeon (Columba livia) is a prime example of how ...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🚨🕊️ New paper: “Homing and feral pigeons differ in hippocampal formation neuron size: a Golgi study”.
Read below 👇
DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s004...
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #EvoDevo #Hippocampus #Brain #Neuroanatomy #AvianBrain
Read below 👇
DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s004...
#Neuroscience #BrainEvolution #EvoDevo #Hippocampus #Brain #Neuroanatomy #AvianBrain
An interesting and thought-provoking article about the evolution of the brain, its size, and the theories on why it began to shrink millennia ago—possibly triggered by social and “technological” advances.
#Brain #BrainEvolution #HumanEvolution
#Brain #BrainEvolution #HumanEvolution
Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future
Recent fossil finds suggest that big brains weren't an evolutionary asset to our ancestors but evolved by accident – and are likely to shrink again in the near future
www.newscientist.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
An interesting and thought-provoking article about the evolution of the brain, its size, and the theories on why it began to shrink millennia ago—possibly triggered by social and “technological” advances.
#Brain #BrainEvolution #HumanEvolution
#Brain #BrainEvolution #HumanEvolution
New primate brain-scan study finds the self-processing network’s hub shifted from insula to cingulate cortex, evolving unevenly across humans, chimpanzees, and macaques. #Neuroscience #PrimateEvolution #BrainEvolution www.primatology.net/p/the-self-p...
The Self-Processing Network Evolved Unevenly in Primates
A brain-scan study of humans, chimpanzees, and macaques finds the neural hub for self-awareness shifted from the insula to the cingulate cortex.
www.primatology.net
September 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
New primate brain-scan study finds the self-processing network’s hub shifted from insula to cingulate cortex, evolving unevenly across humans, chimpanzees, and macaques. #Neuroscience #PrimateEvolution #BrainEvolution www.primatology.net/p/the-self-p...
New Science paper: primate brain expansion wasn’t driven by the frontal lobe after all. Endocast scans show vision-processing regions ballooned instead, tracking optic nerve size back 33+ million years. #PaleoAnthropology #BrainEvolution #Primatology www.primatology.net/p/the-eyes-h...
The Eyes Had It: What Primate Skulls Reveal About the Real Driver of Brain Expansion
A new endocast study of tarsiers, anthropoids, and their relatives finds that vision, not the frontal lobe, explains why primate brains ballooned over 33 million years
www.primatology.net
August 7, 2026 at 8:23 PM
New Science paper: primate brain expansion wasn’t driven by the frontal lobe after all. Endocast scans show vision-processing regions ballooned instead, tracking optic nerve size back 33+ million years. #PaleoAnthropology #BrainEvolution #Primatology www.primatology.net/p/the-eyes-h...