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 ...

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.

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.

📈 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.

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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 ...

Elon Musk has invested in figuring out how to establish human communities on Mars. AP “The growth rate is projected to become negative — that is, the population will start to shrink — 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.