Human brain evolution: transcripts, metabolites and their regulators

Divergent Whole-Genome Methylation Maps of Human and Chimpanzee Brains Reveal Epigenetic Basis of Human Regulatory Evolution

(2012) Jia Zeng et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Large-Scale Cellular-Resolution Gene Profiling in Human Neocortex Reveals Species-Specific Molecular Signatures

(2012) Hongkui Zeng et al.   CELL

Inhibition of SRGAP2 Function by Its Human-Specific Paralogs Induces Neoteny during Spine Maturation

(2012) Cécile Charrier et al.   CELL

Evolution of Human-Specific Neural SRGAP2 Genes by Incomplete Segmental Duplication

(2012) Megan Y. Dennis et al.   CELL

Fetal brain development in chimpanzees versus humans

(2012) Tomoko Sakai et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evidence for Cultural Differences between Neighboring Chimpanzee Communities

(2012) Lydia V. Luncz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Extension of cortical synaptic development distinguishes humans from chimpanzees and macaques

(2012) X. Liu et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Neuropil distribution in the cerebral cortex differs between humans and chimpanzees

(2012) Muhammad A. Spocter et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome

(2012) Michael J. Hawrylycz et al.   NATURE

An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa

(2012) Kyle S. Brown et al.   NATURE

An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

(2012)   NATURE

Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk

(2012) Augustine Kong et al.   NATURE

Comparative studies of gene expression and the evolution of gene regulation

(2012) Irene Gallego Romero et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Transcriptional Architecture of the Primate Neocortex

(2012) Amy Bernard et al.   NEURON

Human-Specific Transcriptional Networks in the Brain

(2012) Genevieve Konopka et al.   NEURON

Epigenetics in the Human Brain

(2012) Isaac Houston et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The human socio-cognitive niche and its evolutionary origins

(2012) A. Whiten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Human brain evolution: From gene discovery to phenotype discovery

(2012) T. M. Preuss   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution

(2012) K. E. Langergraber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost

(2012) S. Herculano-Houzel   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Prolonged myelination in human neocortical evolution

(2012) D. J. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual

(2012) M. Meyer et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of the human-specific microRNA miR-941

(2012) Hai Yang Hu et al.   Nature Communications

Human-Specific Histone Methylation Signatures at Transcription Start Sites in Prefrontal Neurons

(2012) Hennady P. Shulha et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The human brain: rewired and running hot

(2011) Todd M. Preuss   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The prefrontal cortex: Comparative architectonic organization in the human and the macaque monkey brains

(2011) Michael Petrides et al.   CORTEX

Differential Prefrontal White Matter Development in Chimpanzees and Humans

(2011) Tomoko Sakai et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

When brain clocks lose track of time: cause or consequence of neuropsychiatric disorders

(2011) Jerome S Menet et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

How many neurons do you have? Some dogmas of quantitative neuroscience under revision

(2011) Roberto Lent et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

An earlier origin for the Acheulian

(2011) Christopher J. Lepre et al.   NATURE

Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits

(2011) Cory Y. McLean et al.   NATURE

Spatio-temporal transcriptome of the human brain

(2011) Hyo Jung Kang et al.   NATURE

Energetics and the evolution of human brain size

(2011) Ana Navarrete et al.   NATURE

A Transcriptomic Atlas of Mouse Neocortical Layers

(2011) T. Grant Belgard et al.   NEURON

Stone toolmaking and the evolution of human culture and cognition

(2011) D. Stout   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genes Expressed in Specific Areas of the Human Fetal Cerebral Cortex Display Distinct Patterns of Evolution

(2011) Nelle Lambert et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic rate shifts in feeding time during the evolution of Homo

(2011) C. Organ et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid metabolic evolution in human prefrontal cortex

(2011) X. Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spontaneous prosocial choice by chimpanzees

(2011) V. Horner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extraordinary neoteny of synaptic spines in the human prefrontal cortex

(2011) Zdravko Petanjek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Broca’s Area: Rethinking Classical Concepts From a Neuroscience Perspective

(2011) Martha S. Burns et al.   Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Accelerated Recruitment of New Brain Development Genes into the Human Genome

(2011) Yong E. Zhang et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

MicroRNA-Driven Developmental Remodeling in the Brain Distinguishes Humans from Other Primates

(2011) Mehmet Somel et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

MicroRNA Expression and Regulation in Human, Chimpanzee, and Macaque Brains

(2011) Hai Yang Hu et al.   PLoS Genetics

Nonadaptive processes in primate and human evolution

(2010) Eugene E. Harris   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Epigenetic Regulation of miR-184 by MBD1 Governs Neural Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation

(2010) Changmei Liu et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Spatial Organization of Neurons in the Frontal Pole Sets Humans Apart from Great Apes

(2010) K. Semendeferi et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation

(2010) Jonathan K. Pritchard et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bonobos voluntarily share their own food with others

(2010) Brian Hare et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

New insights into cortical interneurons development and classification: Contribution of developmental studies

(2010) Tania Vitalis et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Both Noncoding and Protein-Coding RNAs Contribute to Gene Expression Evolution in the Primate Brain

(2010) Courtney C. Babbitt et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

MicroRNA, mRNA, and protein expression link development and aging in human and macaque brain

(2010) M. Somel et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Evolution of alternative splicing in primate brain transcriptomes

(2010) Lan Lin et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

(2010) David Reich et al.   NATURE

How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together

(2010) Kevin N. Laland et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Contrasts between adaptive coding and noncoding changes during human evolution

(2010) Ralph Haygood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Connectivity-driven white matter scaling and folding in primate cerebral cortex

(2010) S. Herculano-Houzel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing shapes transcriptome diversity in primates

(2010) N. Paz-Yaacov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dental evidence for ontogenetic differences between modern humans and Neanderthals

(2010) T. M. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

(2010) J. Zilhao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic signatures of diet-related shifts during human origins

(2010) C. C. Babbitt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A review of EEG, ERP, and neuroimaging studies of creativity and insight.

(2010) Arne Dietrich et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Targeted Investigation of the Neandertal Genome by Array-Based Sequence Capture

(2010) H. A. Burbano et al.   SCIENCE

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

(2010) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Human evolution and cognition

(2010) Ian Tattersall   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

Gene regulation and the origins of human biological uniqueness

(2010) Samuel J. Sholtis et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Intergenic and Repeat Transcription in Human, Chimpanzee and Macaque Brains Measured by RNA-Seq

(2010) Augix Guohua Xu et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Identification of novel exons and transcribed regions by chimpanzee transcriptome sequencing

(2010) Anna Wetterbom et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Childhood, adolescence, and longevity: A multilevel model of the evolution of reserve capacity in human life history

(2009) Barry Bogin   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

A Humanized Version of Foxp2 Affects Cortico-Basal Ganglia Circuits in Mice

(2009) Wolfgang Enard et al.   CELL

Large-scale mRNA sequencing determines global regulation of RNA editing during brain development

(2009) H. Wahlstedt et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Uniquely Hominid Features of Adult Human Astrocytes

(2009) N. A. Oberheim et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Linkage Disequilibrium Extends Across Putative Selected Sites in FOXP2

(2009) S. E. Ptak et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Lowly Expressed Human MicroRNA Genes Evolve Rapidly

(2009) Han Liang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Human-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2

(2009) Genevieve Konopka et al.   NATURE

microRNAs at the synapse

(2009) Gerhard Schratt   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

(2009) C. Tennie et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Emulation, imitation, over-imitation and the scope of culture for child and chimpanzee

(2009) A. Whiten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Differences in human and chimpanzee gene expression patterns define an evolving network of transcription factors in brain

(2009) Katja Nowick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Transcriptional neoteny in the human brain

(2009) M. Somel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome-Wide Identification of Human RNA Editing Sites by Parallel DNA Capturing and Sequencing

(2009) J. B. Li et al.   SCIENCE

The evolution of hominin ontogenies

(2009) Christoph P.E. Zollikofer et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The conservation and evolutionary modularity of metabolism

(2009) José M Peregrín-Alvarez et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Structural Variation of Chromosomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder

(2008) Christian R. Marshall et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Communicative Signaling Activates ‘Broca's’ Homolog in Chimpanzees

(2008) Jared P. Taglialatela et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The determination of projection neuron identity in the developing cerebral cortex

(2008) Dino P Leone et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

RNA-seq: An assessment of technical reproducibility and comparison with gene expression arrays

(2008) J. C. Marioni et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa

(2008) Lucinda Backwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Neurodevelopmental Trajectories of the Human Cerebral Cortex

(2008) P. Shaw et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The evolution of the arcuate fasciculus revealed with comparative DTI

(2008) James K Rilling et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Human uniqueness: genome interactions with environment, behaviour and culture

(2008) Ajit Varki et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Genome-Wide Analysis of MEF2 Transcriptional Program Reveals Synaptic Target Genes and Neuronal Activity-Dependent Polyadenylation Site Selection

(2008) Steven W. Flavell et al.   NEURON

Decoding the Epigenetic Language of Neuronal Plasticity

(2008) Emiliana Borrelli et al.   NEURON

Metabolomics: A Global Biochemical Approach to the Study of Central Nervous System Diseases

(2008) Rima Kaddurah-Daouk et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later

(2008) Josep Call et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Genetic basis of human brain evolution

(2008) Eric J. Vallender et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Mitochondrial Targeting Adaptation of the Hominoid-Specific Glutamate Dehydrogenase Driven by Positive Darwinian Selection

(2008) Lia Rosso et al.   PLoS Genetics

Assessing the Evolutionary Impact of Amino Acid Mutations in the Human Genome

(2008) Adam R. Boyko et al.   PLoS Genetics

Metabolic changes in schizophrenia and human brain evolution

(2008) Philipp Khaitovich et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY