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Re:The New Population Bomb by ceejayoz on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:20PM (#28635597)
Why do human ancestors stretching back ~1B years not count?
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Re:The New Population Bomb by xqcgrek2 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:23PM (#28635623)
They could, but most humans ever born have been born in the last 300 years.
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Re:The New Population Bomb by ceejayoz on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:28AM (#28642902)
You're missing the point, though. Count pre-human ancestors and that's no longer true.

It ceases to become a "doomsday" argument and more the (fairly obvious) idea that our species is likely to continue evolving to some extent, possibly to the point where we're something posthuman.

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Re:The New Population Bomb by syntheticnature on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:35PM (#28635806)
Most humans ever born so far.
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