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Five seconds' worth of googling shows that an estimate of Hominid population before 200,000 years ago is anywhere between 2 billion to 20 billion. https://en.w
by pavel_lishin 2y ago
Five seconds' worth of googling shows that an estimate of Hominid population before 200,000 years ago is anywhere between 2 billion to 20 billion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_demography#Hominid_population_estimates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_demography#Hominid...
This is one of those things that's probably incredibly difficult to estimate with any level of accuracy.
- layer8 2y agoWhy stop at hominids?
- pavel_lishin 2y agoBecause of the context of the discussion we were having.
- layer8 2y agoPeople don’t normally consider all hominids as “people”. And if you do, you might also add dolphins, corvids, and the like.
- I_dream_of_Gen1 2y ago[dead]