Lab-grown ‘mini brains’ suggest one mutation might have rewired the human mind0

• From Around the Web, Science & Technology
• March 12, 2021

How we humans became what we are today is a question that scientists have been trying to answer for a long time. How did we evolve such advanced cognitive abilities, giving rise to complex language, poetry and rocket science? In what way is the modern human brain different from those of our closest evolutionary relatives, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans?