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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

About 90-95% of humans have died at some point in their lives so yeah very likely we will follow suit at some point.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's more than that... I know you were joking but ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimates_of_historical_world_population

Yeah it's estimated but it's a shit ton of people so it's more like 99.9%

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Hang on there based on the image, 7.95 billion alive today, 109 billion have lived and died, that's like 93% death rate not 99.9%. Is there some other figure on the page you're basing the 99.9% off?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i remember an old article that said DNA shows that all current humans can be traced back to 7 women during the ice age.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

There were probably more around at the time, all the other bloodlines just died off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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%.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

No your right, my bad I'm terrible at math and sick

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.