Demography is the study of human populations, past, present and future. It is concerned with how births, deaths, and migration determine change, and so determine key trends such as rapid population ...

The second, larger wave began 10,000 years ago as the discovery of agriculture caused a population boom and a need to plow wildlife habitats, divert streams, and maintain large herds of domestic ...

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 tracking coyotes in Chicago discovered that densely populated human areas are linked to longer coyote lifespans.

Other populations have become cloistered thanks ... a now-extinct group of human ancestors who originated in Asia. But after that initial meet-up, Papua New Guineans became genetically isolated ...

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 ...

"Within the past 50,000 years, most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," Hodgson said. "This includes all of the skin color variation seen across the globe, all of 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 ...

The global human population is projected to touch 8.09 billion on January 1, 2025, as per data released by the US Census Bureau. The bureau said the world population increased by 71 million people in ...