Comment on Anon's uncle is sick

• Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We don’t care how many people were alive back than compared to today.

        But that is exactly the ratio you claim to be 99.9% when in reality it is closer to 93%.

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • meowMix2525@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There were probably more around at the time, all the other bloodlines just died off.

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And they were all neighbours in the same age and shared a WhatsApp group.

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  • Dalvoron@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• r00ty@kbin.life ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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