The U.N. predicts the world population will reach eight billion by November 15. Grant Faint via Getty Images The population of humans on Earth is expected to reach eight billion by November 15, ...

Humanity could be on the cusp of a civilizational collapse, according to population ecologist William Rees. In November 2022, the global population hit 8 billion, according to estimates by the United ...

All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through interbreeding about 300,000 years ago. The genetic mixture is approximately 80% from one ...

Learn how precisely dated fossils from Morocco reveal a population with a mix of archaic and emerging traits, helping clarify ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ago. Led by scientists from the University of Cologne, a team of 25 ...

Our species is nothing if not prolific. The world’s human population is expected to reach 8 billion this month and increase to 10 billion over the next 60 years, according to demographers at the ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with humans.

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. It took 300,000 years for the human population to grow to one billion souls. We hit that milestone in the early 1800s. And ...