Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

For human societies, insects are part of a shared ecology involving the gamut of symbiotic relations. Insects (and arthropods ...

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...

Human rights are under pressure in many places across the globe. Peaceful protests are violently quashed. Voting is tampered with. And minorities are often excluded from decision-making. All of this ...

Large ant colonies with tens or hundreds of thousands of members engage in all-out war with other colonies as they compete for resources. Mark W. Moffett / Minden Pictures. Look closely enough, and ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked ...

Amid hundreds of origin stories for hundreds of world societies, religion offers a tidy explanation for why humans started working together. It tells us that people with a common belief in a ...

New research could explain why human brains have reduced in size since the last ice age, using an example from an unexpected source: ants. The team behind the research, published in the journal ...

I've been reading the Seamus Heaney translation of "Beowulf." As a young graduate student in English, I thought I might become a medievalist, so I took a course in Old English and read some of ...