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 ...

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

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

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

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

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...

If you’re a lefty and have ever felt excluded from the right-handed club as you write a letter, throw a ball, or wield a ...