A statistical analysis of our closest extinct relatives has found our prehistoric ancestors underwent a bit of a growth spurt ...

Steve Brusatte, who has helped shape the creatures of the Jurassic World movies and Walking with Dinosaurs TV series, has ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

“What Makes Us Human?” is a biweekly column in which Emi Sakamoto ’28 investigates the interdisciplinary criteria whereby we might better respond to this metaphysically contested question. Amid our ...

Three early humans crossed wet ash in northern Tanzania about 3.6 million years ago, leaving behind a trail that still records how their feet struck the ground. The marks, preserved at Laetoli, are ...

Why are so many people right-handed? A new study suggests the answer may trace back to two major shifts in human evolution: walking upright and growing bigger brains. According to Sci.News, ...

New research from the University of Oxford and the University of Reading suggests bipedalism and expanding brain size helped drive the overwhelming dominance of right-handedness in humans. “In all ...

Standard Chartered STAN-1.83%decrease; down pointing triangle Chief Executive Bill Winters touched a nerve when he said his bank would slash thousands of jobs and replace “lower-value human capital” ...

A new study suggests humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary shifts: walking on two legs and developing much larger brains. Researchers found that as human ...

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right hand—with no other primate species showing a population-level preference on this ...