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.

Recent studies indicate that sugars in our diets have played a pivotal role in the evolutionary growth of the human brain ...

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

The findings suggest that early hominins may have gotten as much as 66 percent of energy from sweet food such as fruit and ...

A study highlights the role of carbohydrates, as well as the prominence of meat, in the brain and reproductive development of ...

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

Every time a virus invades a person, it collides with thousands of years of human history. A study led by researchers at 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 ...

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

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

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