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Population level extinction in human prehistory readings, part 1

One of my current research projects is investigating the potential impact of population level extinction in human evolutionary history. I am focusing my efforts on Late Pleistocene Europe because it is a time and a place that we have a … Continue reading

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Onward and upward: Demography and human population size

As you have likely heard, sometime over the past week the world’s estimated population crossed the 7 billion mark. This follows less than 15 years after passing the 6 billion mark, and means the world’s population has doubled over a … Continue reading

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