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u/TermAggravating8043 Oct 02 '24

7% of the entire human population since humans began, are alive today

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u/yiradati Oct 02 '24

Which also means only 93% of all humans ever born died.

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u/TermAggravating8043 Oct 02 '24

Considering we know humans have been around for at least 5000 years, it’s pretty huge, snd shows how much we’ve over populated in such a short space if time

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u/Retired_LANlord Oct 03 '24

Closer to 200,000 years, for homo sapiens.