• taladar@sh.itjust.works
    61·
    6 hours ago

    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.

    • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      55 minutes 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.

    • Joeffect@lemmy.world
      12·
      3 hours 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
        2·
        1 hour 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%.