People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Researchers tracking coyotes in Chicago discovered that densely populated human areas are linked to longer coyote lifespans.

Tracking coyote movement in metropolitan areas shows the animals spend lots of time in natural settings, but a study suggests the human element of city life has a bigger impact than the environment on ...

Unfortunately, human migrations are often the result of ... the Ottoman Empire began trying to exterminate its Armenian population to suppress natioinalism among non-Muslim minorities in the ...

Genetic variation among human races can be observed in almost ... from the subpopulation tend to share alleles with the total population. In other words, a low level of differentiation for that ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Urbanization of the Human Population ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 213 No. 3 (September 1965), p. 40 doi:10.1038 ...