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

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

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

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

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

Oldest Homo fossils: New finds in Ethiopia’s Afar region date to 2.8 million years ago, possibly the earliest known Homo ...

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according ...

Red meat has long occupied a near-mythic place in the story of human evolution. It is often cast as the food that helped make ...

Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.