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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

📈 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.

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 ...

Human-wildlife overlap is projected to increase across more than half of all lands around the globe by 2070. The main driver of these changes is human population growth.

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

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 ...

Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University in Finland and lead author of the study published in ...

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.