• @[email protected]
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      91 month ago

      You underestimate the effects of population growth. There was a lot of time in prehistory but the population at any given point was tiny compared to today.

      • @Num10ck
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        51 month ago

        i remember an old article that said DNA shows that all current humans can be traced back to 7 women during the ice age.

      • @Joeffect
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        11 month ago

        Those people were alive and died it doesn’t matter… There have been more people dead than are currently living by a lot.

        We don’t care how many people were alive back than compared to today. It’s the total amount to how many have died…

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          51 month ago

          We don’t care how many people were alive back than compared to today.

          But that is exactly the ratio you claim to be 99.9% when in reality it is closer to 93%.

          • @Joeffect
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            31 month ago

            No your right, my bad I’m terrible at math and sick

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      Hang on there based on the image, 7.95 billion alive today, 109 billion have lived and died, that’s like 93% death rate not 99.9%. Is there some other figure on the page you’re basing the 99.9% off?