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Sugar and meat fueled human brain development

Published Wednesday, August 19, 2026

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What We Know — Key Points

  • Over a period of four million years, the size of the human brain is said to have increased from around 300 grams in early hominins to about 1,500 grams in modern humans.

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  • The Hindu

    The article emphasizes that the brain's need for glucose from carbohydrate foods has largely received little attention from anthropologists, highlighting the new study's contribution to evolutionary theory.

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