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

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

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 ...

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

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some ...

A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...