• taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days 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.

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      5 days 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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        5 days ago

        And they were all neighbours in the same age and shared a WhatsApp group.

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      5 days 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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        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%.