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

Humans appear to be set apart from much of the animal kingdom, even if we do say so ourselves. While we often credit our survival to superior intellect and our hyper-competitive spirit, a new study ...

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.

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...

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

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

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

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

TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could dramatically change the human species. Describe what you mean by that. Scharf: ...

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

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 ...