Apple Inc. AAPL co-founder Steve Jobs once framed humanity's edge over apes and other high primates in simple terms: people build tools, then use those tools to outrun their own limits. In interviews ...

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 hammer, you’re not imagining it. About 90 percent of people worldwide favor ...

Roughly nine out of 10 people favor their right hand, a pattern so common it can feel almost invisible. Yet in evolutionary terms, it is deeply strange. No other primate species comes close to showing ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...