A rock sitting quietly in a university lab turned out to contain something far more remarkable than anyone realized: what may ...

Humans' near-universal right-handedness, unlike other primates, is now understood. An Oxford study reveals this trait evolved ...

Kenyanthropus platyops was identified from fossils found near Lake Turkana in Kenya and dated to roughly 3.5 to 3.2 million ...

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows ...

The first representatives of Homo sapiens lived in humid tropical forests about 150 thousand years ago. According to the results of a study by an international group of scientists, this discovery more ...

A team led by researchers from the University of Oxford suggests that humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary milestones: walking upright and d ...

A newly named crocodile species from Ethiopia likely lived alongside Lucy’s species and dominated the wetlands of Hadar more ...

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

A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...