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

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

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

Brains rot within days. The bony case that held them can last 33 million years, which is why primate brain evolution has been ...

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

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

An international study has identified three psychological profiles associated with different patterns of cognitive and brain decline in aging. The study, which analyzed more than 1,000 middle-aged and ...

For years, Professor Robin Dunbar questioned the findings of a study published nearly three decades earlier on the “brain lag” hypothesis, the theory that as body size grows, the brain develops more ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...