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

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

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

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

The human body may seem finely engineered, but many of its most familiar features reveal a history of evolutionary compromise ...

Kenyanthropus platyops was identified from fossils found near Lake Turkana in Kenya and dated to roughly 3.5 to 3.2 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...