Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Human Population In the short span of his existence man has come to consume more food than all other land animals put together. This raises the question of how many men the earth can support ...

This event will be discussing the findings of the report and the linkages between population growth, socioeconomic development and environmental change. The human population has experienced a ...

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 ...

In a quest to understand complex speech, scientists inserted what's been dubbed a human “language gene” into mice. Remarkably, the genetic tweak had a profound impact on the little rodents' ability to ...

New fossil evidence from a Spanish cave suggests an unknown prehistoric human population once lived in Europe.

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 ...

It is, in a way, a reminder that population forecasters are human beings, contemplating their own species’s future. Their projections may tell us the path we’re headed on now — but they ...

While human conflict has historically decimated ... tiger habitats have actually benefited from the increasing tiger population due to tourism traffic and revenues. "The common belief is that ...