How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?

Re:How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? by kal_lamar on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:16PM (#36594490)

i have the same (mis)memory.. where is this from?

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Re:How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? by ssttoo on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:43PM (#36594637)

Same here. I’m thinking the book Species maybe?

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Re:How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? by ianburrell on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @12:10PM (#36602470)

I wonder if there were old estimates based on religious teaching that Earth is only 6000 years old. We have only recently known the age of humanity and prehistoric population.

Or maybe it was saying that wasn’t based on estimate.

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