Whether you're reaching for a mug, a pencil or someone's hand, you don't need to consciously instruct each of your fingers on ...

Increased clumsiness in older adults may indicate brain changes that alter frames of reference that, in turn, cause manual dexterity problems, new research suggests. Elderly people show distinctive ...

Archaeologists have long linked ancient tool use to the beginning of human history. Homo habilis, the theory goes, was the "handy man" who used tools and served as the intermediary species between the ...

A century and a half ago, Frederick Engels, in an unpublished 1876 essay titled, The Part Played by Labor in the Transition From Ape to Man (International Publishers 1950), identified the evolution of ...