A sweet tooth for sugars from fruits and honey may have helped fuel brain growth in our primate cousins and early human ...

A hidden force let humans smash a barrier that had trapped our ancestors for millions of years.

Fruit, honey and other naturally sweet foods may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain, according to new research ...

Human evolution: no pause in sight A team at Harvard, led by Ali Akbari, has just turned a key assumption in science upside ...

New research suggests sugars and carbohydrate-rich foods may have helped fuel the dramatic growth of the human brain over 4 ...

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As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...

Study suggests sugars played a bigger role in brain evolution than previously thought. Fruit, honey and other naturally sweet ...

Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual. However, ...

A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

One hundred years ago, a small town in eastern Tennessee captured the attention of the entire country. A biology teacher in Dayton was accused of teaching human evolution to his students — which was ...