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 ...

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 ...

Demographers debate exactly when it will happen, but there is a consensus now that in the second half of this century, the ...

The idea was originally associated with the human population, and was brought to public attention as early as the eighteenth century by Sir Thomas Malthus. His writings influenced Darwin’s ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

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 ...

The graph shows that the human population is growing. This is because the birth rate is much greater than the death rate. In the last fifty years, the population of humans on the planet has ...

State abortion policies alter the relative attractiveness of locations and the geographic distribution of human capital. — ...

So human history cannot be understood without ... we see more of a change in the ancient DNA record as major population ...

This increase can be clearly seen in a graph of human population. better health care so people are living longer new medicines are being developed so people don’t die of previously fatal ...