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

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A long-standing goal of neuroscience is to understand how molecules and cellular structures on a microscale give rise to communication between brain regions at the macroscale. "A central goal of ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

A newly discovered genetic mutation unique to humans may help explain why we are significantly more vulnerable to cancer than our closest evolutionary relatives. Researchers at the University of ...

Over time, humans lost the vocal membranes and air sacs found in monkeys and apes and developed a more stable voice box.