In 1960, three scientists published a paper in Science that calculated, with deliberate provocation, that the human ...

The human population of Earth could collapse and be cut in half in just 40 years if the conditions on the planet change, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human-wildlife overlap is projected to increase across more than half of all lands around the globe by 2070. The main driver of ...

The ideal number of humans on Earth is around 2.5 billion and a major study explains what that means for our future.

In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...

Global population growth may be more sensitive to environmental and societal pressures," Alessio Zaccone told Newsweek.

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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 ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

An ancestral human species faced a startling population bottleneck and teetered on the brink of extinction around 800,000 years ago, according to new research. Reading time 3 minutes Humankind ...

Researchers formulated a mathematical equation that unifies 12,000 years of human population growth and points to an alarming ...