Using a new method of modeling genetic data, researchers identified a split in human ancestry dating back 1.5 million years. The two populations later reconnected. The mystery population (Population B ...

We've long assumed our species evolved from a tidy, single stream of ancestors. But life on Earth is never quite so ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

The third and largest wave began in 1800 with the harnessing of fossil fuels. With enormous, cheap energy at its disposal, the human population grew rapidly from 1 billion in 1800 to 2 billion in 1930 ...

Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...

Yet the term has not been abandoned and actually remains a central theme in conservation biology. As human population growth continues to encroach upon the habitat of endangered and threatened ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

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 ...

This increase can be clearly seen in a graph of human population. better health care so people are living longer new medicines are being developed so people don’t die of previously fatal ...

A study of human populations around the world detects differing rates of horizontal gene transfer in the microbiome depending on what kind of society those people live in.

Human biology encompasses a variety of sub-disciplines such as anatomy, physiology, genetics, nutrition, ecology, evolution, and anthropology to understand human beings and human populations.