A hidden force let humans smash a barrier that had trapped our ancestors for millions of years.

New research suggests sugars and carbohydrate-rich foods may have helped fuel the dramatic growth of the human brain over 4 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...

A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with finger-length patterns linked to higher estrogen exposure before birth ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.