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

Approximately 90% of people across all human cultures are right-handed, and no other primate species shows a population-wide ...

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 ...

About 90 per cent of humans across all cultures favour their right hand for tasks, and this dominance of right-handedness may ...

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

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

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 ...