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Anon crunches some numbers (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Several million not 200k

And the reason is that the species invented agriculture due to natural climate change (not to be confused with the current man-made climate change if anyone was worried) which allowed for a significantly larger portion of the population to not have to work on making food. Also the industrial revolution was its own similar thing.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

If you count homo habilis and homo erectus, then yes. Homo sapiens are closer to 300K then 200k.
Something interesting occurred genetically around 60-65K years ago with sapiens that kicked cultural development into high gear, so really should start counting from there.