An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus ...

Neanderthals may not have truly gone extinct but instead may have been absorbed into the modern human population. That's one of the implications of a new study, which finds modern human DNA may ...

In the early 1800s, the human population hit 1 billion. As of late last year, human population 8 billion. And by the end of the century, it’s expected to top ten billion. What does that mean for ...

The idea that the human population might experience limits to growth was posed in 1798 in Thomas Malthus's "An Essay on the Principle of Population Growth" and has generated debate for over 200 years.

📈 Putting Human Population Growth Into Perspective: • From the years 50,000 B.C. to 1 C.E., humanity grew slowly, from an estimated 2 million to just 300 million.

Human Population Growth and extinction. We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour ...

Some of the genes from Population B, "particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a ...

An ‘ancestral bottleneck’ took out nearly 99 percent of the human population 800,000 years ago. Only 1,280 breeding individuals may have existed at this dramatic era of human history.

The population of early humans dwindled to around 1,280 individuals during a time of dramatic climate change and remained that small for about 117,000 years, the study said.

The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly — may be a blip in human ...

A recent study commissioned by the Club of Rome projects that the global human population will continue to grow into the middle of the 21st century to reach roughly 8.8 billion.