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Study Traces Human Right‑Handedness to Bipedalism and Bigger Brains

The peer‑reviewed analysis links upright walking to later brain growth to explain humans’ strong right‑hand bias.

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Ancient Tooth Proteins Hint at Links Between Chinese Homo Erectus and Denisovans

Potato Domestication Drove AMY1 Gene Surge in Indigenous Andeans

Study Recasts 12,000-Year-Old Plains Artifacts as the Earliest Dice

Study Finds 12,000-Year-Old Native American Dice That Upend the History of Chance

10,500-Year-Old Aurochs Skull on Pine Stake Suggests Ritual Display Near Northern Germany’s Oldest Known Grave

Templo Mayor Dig Yields 43 Mezcala Figures in Moctezuma I–Era Offering

Study of 5,500-Year-Old Gotland Graves Finds Co-Burials Were Often Extended Kin

Reexamined Neolithic Antler Headpiece Points to Shamanic Tradition in Central Germany

Mexico Unveils 1,400-Year-Old Zapotec Tomb With Owl Monument and Murals

First Afar Paranthropus Fossil Pushes Genus’ Range 1,000 Kilometers North

67,800-Year-Old Hand Stencil on Indonesia’s Muna Island Sets Oldest Cave Art Record

Rare HD Footage Shows Uncontacted Amazon Tribe in Peru

Major Review Finds Same-Sex Sexual Behavior Common in Primates, Linked to Social and Environmental Pressures

Moroccan Hominin Fossils Dated to 773,000 Years Bolster African Roots of the Homo Sapiens Lineage

9,500-Year-Old Malawi Find Is Africa’s Earliest Cremation and Oldest Adult Pyre

Malawi Pyre Dating to 9,500 Years Ago Is Africa’s Earliest Intentional Cremation

Reexamined 1936 Finds Reveal Harz’s Oldest Reindeer Antler and Human Marrow Extraction

Heavy Wool on Pompeii Victims Found in New Analysis as Eruption-Date Dispute Continues

Digital Reconstruction of 1.5-Million-Year-Old Ethiopian Skull Redraws Early Homo Erectus Picture