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

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

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

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

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

In many ways, the place of human rights in US foreign policy is simply returning to its pre-World War II norm.

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

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

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