The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Alex Snowdon explains why the oppression of women is not eternal or natural and is bound up with class exploitation Karl Marx ...

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

We’ve all heard that human overpopulation is a crisis. In 2017, Bill Nye warned us about the planet’s “people problem,” and ...

Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

Five globally respected academic institutions have come together to launch the Global Alliance on Sustainable Urban Societies ...

More than 400,000 years ago—long before the rise of the first agricultural civilizations or even the arrival of Homo sapiens ...

New research analyzing isotopes from ancient African remains reveals how societies adapted strategies to survive major climate change.

Livelihood diversity wasn't just a feature of ancient African societies; it was key to survival. New research covering millennia of African history reveals that livelihood diversification enabled ...