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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Approximately 90% of people across all human cultures are right-handed, and no other primate species shows a population-wide ...

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 ...