Human-wildlife overlap is projected to increase across more than half of all lands around the globe by 2070. The main driver of these changes is human population growth. This is the central finding of ...

Regardless of when the peak arrives, sub-replacement fertility implies that the global population will shrink slowly at first ...

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Since 1804, the global human population has increased from 1 billion to 8 billion due to medical advances and improved agricultural productivity. Annual world population growth peaked at 2.1% in 1968 ...

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 have ...