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

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 ...

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

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 ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...

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

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...