How clans form and evolve within human societies has been modeled using a simple computer model developed by a RIKEN ...

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 new study combining archaeological and genetic research offers fresh insights into social organization and population dynamics in the Late Bronze Age (approximately 1500 to 1000 BCE). Conducted by ...

In what is now Shandong, eastern China, researchers have discovered one of the oldest matrilineal societies known to science, which dates back more than 4,500 years. This Neolithic society, which ...

Culture is central to defining humanity. Throughout history, many definitions have been proposed to describe what we mean when we talk about culture, leading to considerable confusion. But while ...

Archaeologists have learned about the lives of the world’s earliest farmers, how they traveled, and socialized in Neolithic ...

How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ranking of elements. Another is homoarchy, which permits one (and only one) ...

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a MacArthur award.

In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this time to prepare for their arrival. Read the paper: Heritable polygenic editing ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

January 16, 2025 – New York, NY – The International Alliance for Primary Immunodeficiency Societies (IAPIDS) and Rockefeller University Press (RUP) have entered a partnership to launch Journal of ...

Craniacs #1 brings skull-faced societies together in Titan's flip-book format comic debuting this Wednesday. Two worlds, one ...