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

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

Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury. And a new study in Science shows meat has never been the main fuel source ...

By Stephen Beech Birdsong shows patterns similar to human language, according to a new study. Researchers have uncovered a ...

Researchers used a new method to investigate past interbreeding with Homo sapiens that doesn't require ancient DNA. The ...

Can we ever overcome the massive mental health crisis we are facing if we don't see ourselves as part of the evolution of ...

Human brain evolution diet study in Science overturns decades of dietary mythology: Prof. Jennie Brand-Miller's ...

A mouse hunting for food might sniff several times a second. A person checking whether a cantaloupe is ripe usually leans in ...

Summary: Researchers propose an evolutionary resolution to why human overconfidence persists despite causing costly ...

Hidden within the genomes of people alive today are fragments of DNA from two unidentified human ancestors. Researchers at UC ...

"If we do continue to advance the technology of these models then they’ll have a major positive impact on humanity." ...

A few months ago, some 160 scientists across physics, biology, and medicine met in Singapore for the first ever global conference on the physics of aging, or gerophysics. It's a niche discipline whose ...