Study Points to Sugar, Not Just Meat, as Fuel for Human Brain Evolution

Paranthropus boisei. Image credit: © Roman Yevseyev.

A team of researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Glasgow argues that dietary sugars, not animal foods, may have played the decisive role in the expansion of the human brain over the past 4 million years, as hominin brain size grew nearly fivefold, from about 300 grams in early relatives like […]

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