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

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

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

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows anything close to the same pattern. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists say the ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours ...

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

How can researchers know that tiny fossil teeth are millions of years old? The answer comes from volcanoes. Ethiopia's Afar region remains an active rifting zone, shaped by tectonic forces and ...

A new study suggests humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary shifts: walking on two legs ...