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

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

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

The evolution of the human brain may owe as much to fruit and honey as to meat, according to a new Analytical Review. Its findings challenge one of ...

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.

I: INTRODUCTION: Early hominin diets: overview and historical perspective / Alan Walker -- Whose diet? : an introduction to the hominin fossil record / Amanda G. Henry and Bernard Wood -- II: THE ...

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

The study of dental microwear allows the analysis of the microscopic marks that foods leave on the surface of tooth enamel during mastication. In paleoanthropology, this methodology helps reconstruct ...

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates—or our early human ancestors. We tend to think of fruits and green leaves as the preferred foods for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Krasny is a professor at Cornell University. Scientists don’t agree on the role of meat in human evolution. The “meat ...