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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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- 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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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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