This part one of an interview with zoologist and explorer Mark W. Moffett, an expert on human and animal societies, about his new book: The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...