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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A new analysis of crystals that formed inside one of the bones shows that the site dates back to an ice age 146,000 years ago ...

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 ...

A remarkable collection of ancient stone tools proves that human creativity can thrive in challenging times. The complexity ...