Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Why are 90% of people right-handed and 10% left-handed? A modification of the well-known fighting hypothesis aims to explain ...

Humans appear to be set apart from much of the animal kingdom, even if we do say so ourselves. While we often credit our ...

FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could ...

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

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 ...

Playing a complex guitar solo ought to be impossible. To elicit the desired torrent of notes, the fingers of one hand must move nimbly around the fretboard, while the other hand plucks the strings, in ...