Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

On January 19, a process that has been 80 years in the making will get underway at United Nations headquarters in New York.

A study published in 2023 suggests that nearly 1 million years ago, humanity almost ceased to exist. This potential mass extinction event was discovered by researchers when they began analyzing the ...

As technology accelerates progress, a paradox emerges: digital nomadism is unraveling humanity back to its hunter-gatherer ...

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August 19 is commemorated as World Humanitarian Day. But the question is: Is humanity confined to humans only? Shouldn't we go beyond humans and extend our humane behaviour to our mute and vulnerable ...

In societies where polygamy is illegal, humans are actually a lot better at being monogamous than most people think.

We are used to assisting with extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence (AI) in recent decades, which have evolved from a theoretical research field into a driving force behind technological ...