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“I don’t like to brag, but I’ve got a pretty big brain. And so do you.”

May 31, 2018
By Tim Stephens | UCSC
A set of three nearly identical genes found only in humans appear to play a critical role in the development of our large brains, according to a study led by researchers at UC Santa Cruz.

May 31, 2018
The Economist
“HOW the human got his brain” is probably the most important “Just So” story that Rudyard Kipling never wrote. Kipling did not ignore people in his quirky take on evolution.

May 31, 2018
By Elizabeth Pennisi | Science
Three nearly identical genes could help explain how 0.5 liters of gray matter in early human ancestors became the 1.4-liter organ that has made our species so successful and distinctive.

May 31, 2018
By: Ed Yong | The Atlantic
It started with some blobs of brain-like tissue, growing in a dish. Frank Jacobs, then at the University of California at Santa Cruz, had taken stem cells from humans and monkeys, and coaxed them into forming small balls of neurons.

May 31, 2018
Summary: Three brain development genes are found only in humans and may have helped drive the rapid expansion of the brain starting roughly three million years ago.