Genes make us who we are—but are they shaped by chance, natural selection, or something else?
Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...
If you’re a lefty and have ever felt excluded from the right-handed club as you write a letter, throw a ball, or wield a ...
Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...
The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...
In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA), recent single-origin hypothesis (RSOH), replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin ...