A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive.

The study also cited increasing human populations and the resulting food waste as supporting the growing rat population. Though Boston’s rat population has been steadily increasing, it had only the ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...