Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

With falling population growth rates, we will see more elderly per worker. And we may get fewer "1 in a million" innovators.

A group of international researchers has constructed a comprehensive South-East Asian population genome variation dataset, according to the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) under the Chinese Academy ...

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.

An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 years ago, are believed ...

The idea that one percent of the human population are psychopaths is both intriguing and unsettling. Should we be worried, or ...

Greenhouse-gas emissions get all the attention, but their effect is manageable and unfolds over decades.

Here are ten animals with the highest populations on Earth. Some are quite familiar. You have never heard of some others, ...

Changing the definition of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act would remove habitat modifications and imperil vulnerable ...

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door ...