Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t ...

Learn about the similarities between the wrist bones of humans and African apes, which may point to shared knuckle-walking ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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