Comment on Anon's uncle is sick

• Dalvoron@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  About 90-95% of humans have died at some point in their lives so yeah very likely we will follow suit at some point.

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  • Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s more than that… I know you were joking but …

    …wikipedia.org/…/Estimates_of_historical_world_po…

    Yeah it’s estimated but it’s a shit ton of people so it’s more like 99.9%

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    • Dalvoron@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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      • Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • r00ty@kbin.life ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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