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Did Sugar Help Build the Human Brain? New Research Challenges the Meat-Driven Evolution Theory

Chrissy Newton·August 11, 2026

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

Archaeologists don't know who made one-million-year-old stone tools recently found on Sulawesi Island near the home of the "Hobbits."

Ryan Whalen·March 5, 2025

A prehistoric "factory" discovered in Tanzania pushes human ancestor bone tool-making back by over a million years from earlier estimates.

Micah Hanks·July 3, 2023

The earliest mammalian ancestors of humans co-existed with dinosaurs prior to their mass extinction, new research reveals.