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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taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoYou 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.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
There were probably more around at the time, all the other bloodlines just died off.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
And they were all neighbours in the same age and shared a WhatsApp group.
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…
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
But that is exactly the ratio you claim to be 99.9% when in reality it is closer to 93%.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No your right, my bad I’m terrible at math and sick