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

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

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

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

Food has shaped human history in more ways than most people realize. Over thousands of years, they may also have changed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...