"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we ...

While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas. By analyzing 300 rural dam projects across 35 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas.

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history. When you purchase through links on our ...

Coastal populations are expanding quickly around the world. The rise is evident in burgeoning waterfront cities and in the increasing damage from powerful storms and rising sea levels. Yet, reliable, ...

The core formula of a new study in Science that suggests our ancestors may have survived a bottleneck 900,000 years ago Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

The human population may have lingered at about 1,300 for more than 100,000 years, and that population bottleneck could have fueled the divergence between modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans.