Ancient stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi represent the oldest evidence for humans living there 1 ...

Nate Soares, who previously worked as an engineer at Google and Microsoft and now serves as the Executive Director of the Machine ...

Overall, the researchers believe that there could have been a bottleneck somewhere between 930,000 to 813,000 years ago, which led to a 98.7% reduction of humans on Earth.

Together, they’ll look at some famous recent extinctions, find out what role conservation plays in the preservation of species, and explore the major mass extinction events that shaped our world ...

A Population Collapse Revealed Analysis of the genetic data revealed something startling—a severe and prolonged bottleneck that nearly brought humans to extinction. Between approximately 930,000 ...

What is the chance of the human race surviving the 21st century? There are many dangers – climate change for example, or nuclear war, or a pandemic, or planet Earth being hit by a giant asteroid.

It calculated a "death rate" of how many species become extinct each year out of 1 million species. In 1995, Pimm found that the pre-human rate of extinctions on Earth was about 1.

question that we have all asked ourselves at some time is what will happen when human beings become extinct or what species may appear after humanity on our planet. Well, a book written by ...

And that modern humans are probably descendants of Homo ergaster. Modern humans or Homo sapiens became very numerous around 40,000 years ago, appearing all over Europe, Africa and Asia, he said.