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dehrmann
on Feb 16, 2020
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A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the worl...
Guess that means more more than 2% of humans to have ever lived live in that circle.
paulrouget
on Feb 16, 2020
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How many humans have ever lived? And how do we calculate that?
pesfandiar
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One challenging aspect of the calculation would be defining "human".
herendin2
on Feb 16, 2020
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Hard to define, but not important for this stat, because the ancient global population of proto-humans was so small that it's not even a rounding error in 107BN (the estimated total humans to ever have lived)
dehrmann
on Feb 16, 2020
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The internet tells me 107B.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16870579
quickthrower2
on Feb 16, 2020
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I ain’t feeling so special now!
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