populations

Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Eastward shift of settlement areas at the end of the last ice age

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

11 months ago

Discrimination-related depression, anxiety pronounced among multiracial, White, Asian populations

A new study found that more than half of US adults encounter some form of discrimination, and that this mistreatment…

11 months ago

Insights into how populations conform or go against the crowd

Cultural traits -- the information, beliefs, behaviors, customs, and practices that shape the character of a population -- are influenced…

1 year ago

Better ocean connectivity boosts reef fish populations

Research led by the University of Oxford has found that oceanographic connectivity (the movement and exchange of water between different…

1 year ago

The collapse of bat populations led to more than a thousand infant deaths

Bats are considered a natural pesticide, widely relied on by farmers as an alternative to chemical pesticides to protect their…

2 years ago

Coastal populations set to age sharply in the face of climate migration

As climate change fuels sea level rise, younger people will migrate inland, leaving aging coastal populations -- and a host…

2 years ago

Feathers from deceased birds help scientists understand new threat to avian populations

As concerns over the world's declining bird population mount, animal ecologists developed an analytical approach to better understand one of…

2 years ago

New method can improve assessing genetic risks for non-white populations

A team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the National Cancer Institute has developed…

2 years ago