Early humans in Ethiopia survived the Toba supervolcano eruption by shifting to river foods, revealing how drought shaped ...

Paul Ehrlich, who has died aged 93, was an entomologist specialising in butterflies, though he became better known as a ...

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Paul Ehrlich, famed ecologist and controversial author of The Population Bomb, died at 93 years old on March 13.

Since 1805, the number of humans on Earth has skyrocketed from one billion to eight billion. Zoomed out, the growth appears positively parabolic. For everyone alive today, the present population boom ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

Population ecology is the study of how populations — of plants, animals, and other organisms — change over time and space and interact with their environment. Populations are groups of organisms of ...

Researchers have developed a model that captures the dynamics of human dispersal across the continent during the last Ice Age in unprecedented detail. An interdisciplinary research team from the ...

The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...