One specific food may have given us our big fancy human brains

Science tells us that humans evolved from primate ancestors, and that despite the fact that apes still exist, we're actually just a different branch on the same family tree. But why did our ancient predecessors grow larger, more complex brains than their peers? A new study might have an answer for that, and it's a lot simpler than you might imagine: they ate fruit. The research, which was carried out by several scientists including Alex DeCasien, a doctoral candidate at New York University who s...