British scientists unveiled research indicating that the human brain grew slowly over ... the scientists were able to compare different growth patterns and address uncertainty with advanced ...

The colonization-followed-by-extinction pattern can be seen as recently as 2,000 years ... history. . . . We live on a human-dominated planet and the momentum of human population growth, together with ...

and human population growth (e.g., how fast will the human population grow, and what does that mean for climate change, resource use, and biodiversity?). Studying population growth also helps ...