The old saying may be true: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. At least that's the case for human civilizations across 30,000 years of history, according to a new analysis published May 1 in ...

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 ...

Recent discoveries in archaeology have unveiled a previously unknown civilization that could fundamentally alter our understanding of human history. This civilization’s unique characteristics and ...

There is no such thing as a society where everyone is equal. That is the key message of new research that challenges the romantic ideal of a perfectly egalitarian human society. Anthropologist Duncan ...

How will human society evolve with the increasing use of artificial intelligence? (Getty Images) The first time most people could communicate with a computer that responded like a real person was in ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...