According to global urbanist Greg Clark, 55 years from now, the world’s population will have peaked, and nearly all of it ...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that apparently 930,000 years ago, our ancestors were down to an astonishingly small ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

and human population growth (e.g., how fast will the human population grow, and what does that mean for climate change, resource use, and biodiversity?). Studying population growth also helps ...

The third and largest wave began in 1800 with the harnessing of fossil fuels. With enormous, cheap energy at its disposal, the human population grew rapidly from 1 billion in 1800 to 2 billion in 1930 ...

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...

Instead, it is chiefly the activities of an ever-growing human population, in concert with long-term environmental change. The typical rate of extinction differs for different groups of organisms.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Urbanization of the Human Population ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 213 No. 3 (September 1965), p. 40 doi:10.1038 ...

Its primary objective: to make an inventory of all possible polymorphisms in the human population and associate them with diseases. However, the technology to take on such a project would not be ...

A group of Brazilian researchers has, for the first time in the entire Atlantic Rainforest, estimated the population density ...