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

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

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

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

Science dismissed the wrinkly finger as osmosis for a century. The real answer runs through your autonomic nervous system, ...

A new study suggests the answer may trace back to two major shifts in human evolution: walking upright and growing bigger ...

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows ...

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

Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognized. Their work is published in the journal ...

Ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 genomes suggests human evolution accelerated after farming, cities, and the Bronze Age transformed Europe.

The legacy of Neandertals in modern people has often been framed as a genetic gift for fighting infection. This time, the ...

A new large-scale study led by a research team from the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change has found that ...