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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Researchers reveals how walking on two legs and expanding brain size drove the evolution of human right-handedness.

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...

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