For decades, scientists believed climate was the main force guiding where early humans lived across Africa. Shifting rain ...

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

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

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

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right ...

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 ...

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

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...