A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

There is no such thing as a society where everyone is equal. That is the key message of new research that challenges the ...

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 ...

A recent study reveals that humans are more monogamous than primates but less so than beavers, based on sibling analysis across species.

Metacognition allows us to step back and judge our own judgments—a uniquely human ability we can all strengthen to reduce discord ...

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 ...

UNRIC spoke with Iverna McGowan from the UN Human Rights Office about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on our human ...

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 ...

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 ...