Since 1805, the number of humans on Earth has skyrocketed from one billion to eight billion. Zoomed out, the growth appears positively parabolic. For everyone alive today, the present population boom ...

"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 ...

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 ...

With a human population of 8.3 billion people worldwide and millions facing malnutrition, food security is something to think ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...