Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived ... thin red lines represent 2.5 and 97.5 percentiles of FitCoal estimated population sizes over time.

But Population A grew over time, and Neanderthals and Denisovans branched off from it. Related: Human ancestors arrived in ...

But without opening up any new land, the world’s food production could be vastly increased. In 1959, India spent over $300 million on food imports and resigned itself to importing 3,000,000 to ...

The senior population in the U.S. has grown as the baby-boom generation has progressed into the 65 years and older age group. In 2023, there were 59,307,056 Americans over the age of 65. This is a ...

As the world’s population grows, contact between humans and wildlife will increase in more than half of Earth’s land areas. A new study shows where the largest changes will occur.

Over time, human culture has not only included the concrete manifestations of extrasomatic survival strategies but also encompassed abstract notions that are barely perceptible in archeological ...

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 ...

While the WDFW report shows the state's wolf numbers dropped for the first time in 16 years, from 254 in 2023 to 230 in 2024, Bhattacharjee says it's normal for a wildlife population.

This dramatic shrinking is the phenotypic manifestation of a change to the cod genome that’s been brought on by overfishing. That’s the message from a new study that has demonstrated, for the first ...

Trump and Bukele Bond Over Human Rights Abuses in Oval Office Meeting Nayib Bukele said he won’t return a man the U.S. mistakenly deported, while Trump teased sending American citizens to El ...

The total cost of funding the state's department that administers Medicaid topped $55 billion last year including federal contributions, with the state covering $19 billion of the cost.

For the first time in 16 years, Washington state’s overall gray wolf population decreased from the year before, based on information gathered by the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife and ...