For decades, scientists believed climate was the main force guiding where early humans lived across Africa. Shifting rain ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I explore the emerging belief that humans ...

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

A few years ago, Lee Berger almost died when squeezing into a cave system in the so-called Cradle of Humankind.

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

In a recent study published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, researchers examined the differences in circadian biology between the ancestors of modern humans and the archaic hominins such ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...