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 ...

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

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Researchers reveals how walking on two legs and expanding brain size drove the evolution of human right-handedness.

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

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 ...