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 ...

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

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

Weak necks, soft spots, and underdeveloped brains make our babies much less independent than other great apes.

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

Most people know wisdom teeth as the unwanted guests of adulthood. They usually arrive late, often bring pain, and in many ...

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

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of ...

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

Greek paleoanthropologist Katerina Harvati has been awarded the Albert Einstein World Award for Science 2026 for ...