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

Elena Bridgers, a science writer and researcher, told Newsweek that evolution "doesn't care" about gender and equality.

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

A new study uses neural networks to prove that memory and individual recognition allow cooperation to defeat selfishness in the prisoner's dilemma.

Researchers who compared traits throughout many species of primates found that humans stand out because of bipedalism, along ...

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

The "prisoner's dilemma" is one of the most famous ideas in game theory. For decades, this game has been used to explain why selfishness often beats cooperation. In the prisoner's dilemma, two players ...

Cavemen gathered shellfish to eat using the same methods as modern humans, according to new research. Neanderthals in ...

Explore 25 Ideas That Shock and Horrify Scientists, from cosmic dread to mind-controlling parasites. Uncover the terrifying ...

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

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