Comment on Anon's uncle is sick

• Dalvoron@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨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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  • 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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    • meowMix2525@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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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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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No your right, my bad I’m terrible at math and sick

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