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 ...

A newly identified primate species from Wyoming is challenging a long-standing model of early primate evolution. The species, ...

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

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

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...