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Damn, that's interesting!

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All humans who have ever lived (infosec.pub)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That’s one of your key answers there:

10,000 BCE to 1799: HYDE version 3.2

The infographic is counting humans back to 10,000 years ago for the total dead.

But elsewhere in this thread, people are saying bipedal apes with human sized brains have been around anywhere from 50k to 5m years.

So if we’re willing to count our slightly different cousins, whom we could probably relate to if we met them, the column of the dead in the picture would be much deeper.

That makes me think being skeptical was a good idea here. 10 kya cutoff is an interesting and significant piece of this graphic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

All of evolution is a sliding scale. There is no strict delineation.

I never claimed this was a good piece or true or perfect. That "scientist" was being over the top and purposefully myopic with sources provided, they still only desired to shit on someone else's work and then state I didn't read the methods.

There are no real hard facts for that era of time population wise. It's all estimation based on something. It just depends on how you draw the lines in the sand.

There are no hotdogs, there are no sandwiches. It's all a construct of human applied labels.

But I generally agree. 300k years is a long time.