A sweet tooth for sugars from fruits and honey may have helped fuel brain growth in our primate cousins and early human ...
Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...
Fruit, honey and other naturally sweet foods may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain, according to new research ...
Recent studies indicate that sugars in our diets have played a pivotal role in the evolutionary growth of the human brain ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...
Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...
LAST week saw the announcement of not one but two groups of ancient humans, both new to science, and there is no reason to think the discoveries will stop any time soon. In Israel, a team of ...
Applying new analytic methods to nearly 16,000 ancient genomes reveals natural selection has acted on hundreds, not dozens, of genes in West Eurasia over the last 10,000 years. More than half of the ...