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by jws 16y ago
In this article, http://www.pnas.org/content/95/24/14009.full http://www.pnas.org/content/95/24/14009.full the author may show this in figure 2a, http://www.pnas.org/content/95/24/14009/F2.large.jpg http://www.pnas.org/content/95/24/14009/F2.large.jpg
It contains these tidbits as well:
As of 1994,… 33.5% of the world’s population, lived within 100 vertical meters of sea level… The median person lived at an elevation of 194 m above sea level.
- WildUtah 16y agoThat is cool. There's even a little bump on the histogram especially for Mexico City (2300m, 25m souls). Other than Mexico it's monotonic all the way up. I'm amazed how many people live in the lowlands. I've never been able to be happy outside the mountains myself. There's this whole vast majority of my human brothers and sisters who cluster on the seacoasts with the opposite preference. I'm in the tiny group with Tibetan shepherds and Inca campesinos. Those aren't people I usually identify with.