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

About 90 per cent of humans across all cultures favour their right hand for tasks, and this dominance of right-handedness may ...

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 ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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

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

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