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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This increase can be clearly seen in a graph of human population. better health care so people are living longer new medicines are being developed so people don’t die of previously fatal ...

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 ...

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 ...