The primary question of our time: Is Mind Brain?

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Evidence that brain is mind.

It's been a puzzle why our two closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, have widely different social traits, despite belonging to the same genus. Now, a comparative analysis of their brains shows neuroanatomical differences that may be responsible for these behaviors, from the aggression more typical of chimpanzees to the social tolerance of bonobos.
"What's remarkable is that the data appears to match what we know about the human brain and behavior," says Emory anthropologist James Rilling, who led the analysis. "The neural circuitry that mediates anxiety, empathy and the inhibition of aggression in humans is better developed in bonobos than in chimpanzees."

http://www.wildbiology.com/research/Chim..._brain.asp

I haven’t been able to track down a free copy of the original paper Differences between chimpanzees and bonobos in neural systems supporting social cognition. I’d really like to read it though if someone else has access to it.

Some other on topic interesting papers:

http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle...sequence=1

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2588649/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826104/

http://www.life.umd.edu/faculty/wilkinso...ch2008.pdf