A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

About 90 per cent of humans across cultures favour their right hand, making handedness one of the most striking and enduring traits in human evolution. No other primate species displays such a strong ...

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

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

A Neanderthal molar found in Siberia is giving scientists a surprising look. The 59,000-year-old tooth shows signs of a ...

A Biography lifts the curtain on the private life of Charles Darwin, one of science’s most controversial pioneers.

Duke University has been awarded $4.4 million from The Duke Endowment for the Duke Lemur Center (DLC), including support for ...

Human birth has a reputation for danger. The usual explanation is simple enough: walking upright narrowed the pelvis, while ...

An unusual tooth found in a cave offers a rare glimpse into a surprising procedure prehistoric humans might have performed to ...

For most of human history, green eyes didn’t exist. Understanding why they do now means rethinking what we know about ...

Thurka Sangaramoorthy is the chair of the anthropology department at American University. I am the daughter of immigrants who fled civil war in Sri Lanka and came to the United States with very little ...