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 ...

The United Nations projects the world’s population will grow by about 2 million people over the next 30 years to reach a high of around 9.7 billion people by 2050, and perhaps peaking at 10.4 billion ...

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Ancient humanity was almost wiped out about 900,000 years ago when the global population dwindled to around 1,280 reproducing individuals, according to a new study. What’s more, the population of ...

Peak Human is coming, and it’s coming fast. As I wrote in the previous issue of Faster, Please!, today’s Millennials and younger Gen Xers — setting aside any huge longevity leaps for the Boomers — ...

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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 ...

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