The Italian Renaissance artist created groundbreaking depictions of humans at a time when the inner workings of the body ...

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

Professor, author and feminist philosopher Judith Butler spent Tuesday evening elucidating some troubles with the novel form.

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Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each sample has hundreds of books, all cut up into these sentences. To ...

Films from the previous decade like The Babadook, dealing with guilt and grief ... Suddenly, otherwise rational human beings were fighting in supermarkets for the last packet of paracetamol ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared ... “That flowstone took thousands of years to form, but the sediment flooded in here in ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

Now, one theorist warns that the human civilization of 8.2 billion people is at a critical junction: teetering between what he forecasts will be authoritarian collapse and superabundance.