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 ...

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

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

Red meat has long occupied a near-mythic place in the story of human evolution. It is often cast as the food that helped make ...

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

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according ...

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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have ...