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> ...if a generation would be 25 years on average, only 5 million individuals lived during those 100k years. Related: roughly 8% of people who have ever lived
by guiambros 3y ago
> ...if a generation would be 25 years on average, only 5 million individuals lived during those 100k years.
Related: roughly 8% of people who have ever lived are still alive today [1]. And in one year we have 25x more children born than homo sapiens in those first hundreds of thousands of years (140M/yr vs. a few millions).
[1] https://www.techopian.com/eight-per-cent-of-people-who-have-ever-lived-are-alive-today/ https://www.techopian.com/eight-per-cent-of-people-who-have-...