Posts

Comments

Comment by Alexander Turok on Are the majority of your ancestors farmers or non-farmers? · 2023-06-21T16:20:47.600Z · LW · GW

According to this, there were only 9 billion humans alive before the agricultural revolution, as compared to 109 billion who have lived and died:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimates_of_historical_world_population#/media/File:Illustration_of_contemporary_and_past_human_populations_Our_World_in_Data.png