A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...

and human population growth (e.g., how fast will the ... have observed that the size of many populations fluctuates over time rather than remaining constant as logistic growth predicts.

Their findings suggest that two early human populations—dubbed Population A and Population B—split apart at that time. Population A eventually gave rise to Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

Humans’ impact has been so profound that scientists have proposed that the Holocene era be declared over and the ... from those at any other time in history. . . . We live on a human-dominated planet ...

These data for the US human population suggest something general ... the estimate of the intrinsic rate of natural increase; over a short period of time, tends to decrease. This means that there ...

The spread of population across the ... sapiens rather than other archaic human species. Experts conducted luminescence dating, which analyzed the last time the fragments were exposed to sunlight ...

“I think the key finding is that we are documenting for the first time a hominin population that we did not know we had in Europe.” Chris Stringer, a research leader in human evolution at ...

Over the past three decades, societies around the world have made remarkable progress in improving population data gathering ... capture the full range of human diversity so that everyone is ...