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Potatoes made us smarter: scientists

August 11, 2015  By New Zealand Herald


August 11, 2015 – The potato is being credited with fuelling the extraordinary expansion of the brain in human evolution.

The move towards eating meat was previously suggested as the main cause of the increase but a new study suggests it was driven by carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch. READ MORE

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