For decades, scientists believed climate was the main force guiding where early humans lived across Africa. Shifting rain ...

Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...

A new study suggests humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary shifts: walking on two legs ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...