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🌍 At some point, there were only one thousand people on earth. Can you believe that? It’s mind-blowing to think about how much the world has changed since then. The global population has grown exponentially over the centuries, and today, there are over 7.8 billion people living on our planet.
So, how did we go from just one thousand people to 7.8 billion? Let’s take a closer look at the evolution of the global population and how it has shaped the world we live in today.
##The Early Days
In the early days of human history, the global population was extremely small. Around 10,000 BC, it is estimated that there were only around 1 million people living on earth. Most of these people were hunter-gatherers, and they lived in small, nomadic communities. As time went on, the population slowly began to grow as humans developed agriculture and settled into permanent communities.
##The Industrial Revolution
One of the biggest turning points in the history of the global population was the Industrial Revolution. This period, which began in the 18th century, saw a massive increase in the world’s population. Advances in technology, medicine, and agriculture allowed for a dramatic increase in the standard of living. As a result, people began to live longer, and the population began to grow at an unprecedented rate.
##Population Today
Today, the global population continues to grow at a rapid pace. In fact, it is estimated that the world’s population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050. This growth presents a number of challenges for the world, including issues related to food production, natural resource depletion, and environmental sustainability.
##Impacts of Overpopulation
The rapid growth of the global population has had a number of significant impacts on the world we live in today. Some of the most notable effects of overpopulation include:
– Increased strain on natural resources
– Environmental degradation
– Urbanization and overcrowding
– Food and water shortages
##Addressing the Issue
It’s clear that the issue of overpopulation is a pressing concern for the world. As the global population continues to grow, it is important that we take steps to address the issue and mitigate its effects. Some potential solutions to overpopulation include:
1. Educating people about family planning and birth control
2. Investing in sustainable agriculture and resource management
3. Encouraging sustainable living practices
In conclusion, the evolution of the global population is a fascinating and complex topic. The world has come a long way since the days when there were only one thousand people on earth, and the population continues to grow at a rapid pace. By understanding the history of the global population and its impacts, we can work towards creating a more sustainable and prosperous world for future generations.
And Jesus was one of them.
And they all probably complained about how crowded it was.
That doesn’t seem very likely. No way of knowing how many originally climbed out of the ooze but 1000 seems too low to be able to maintain as a species.
My understanding there was a point (for our ancestors) with a very low population, but it was still at least 8 or 10 thousand, maybe more. And the they (we) thrived, and spread out. But yeah, at some point after the hominid mutation, the numbers had to grow from a single l group and/or individual
This isn’t a shower thought…
At some point we will be 1000 again then nothing
I know this probably isn’t what you were thinking of, so I guess it’s happened at least twice: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487
Not if the aliens who made us brought more than a thousand people
Is this true? Actually, give me some time to think about it. I don’t think any comment has captured the truth yet.
Alright, I (believe I) am smart enough to know that this isn’t true from an evolutionary perspective (if creationary then okay sure) NECESSARILY but am not smart enough to know why. Sorry
Best I can do is something about the uncanny valley, war on evil, and the feeling of someone (or some BEING) not belonging.
If you’re talking about the Toba catastrophe theory 70,000 years ago it was 1,000 to 10,000 breeding pairs.
At some point there were no people on earth
At one point the number of humans went from above 200 sexually mature people to 200 of them. That was, a grand total of 400 people worldwide above the age of 13.
Super volcanoes are powerful. That was Lake Toba in Indonesia. Now imagine another one like Yellowstone decides to erupt.
Only if you can point to a fine line of what is considered human. Genetically, those who would go on to become humans might have all carried similar genes, but they still would have been close enough to the progenitor species that they could breed with one another and still be functionally the same. When those traits moved on to become dominant, the entire population curve would have moved in that direction.
These changes are so minute that you would have a lot of trouble pointing to one group and calling them the progenitor and pointing to the other and calling it human.
At some point there were only 2 people on earth
Who told you this? (It’s wrong)
Lots of wincest to get to a billion!
Technically true. Technically there was a time there was one human, I guess.
Now that i think about it, they have to draw a line somewhere, right? So technically at some point, there was only one human on earth, since everyone else was behind the line
Yeah it was the boys up in cave 5 through 12, and then Ugg and Jung Jung and those boys down the way in caves 1 through 5
We were this close to greatness…
No, because that’s not how it works. First off, a population needs genetic diversity, and 1000 individuals probably isn’t enough, and there’s also no evidence for the population of humanity ever being that small. There was a population bottleneck, but it was closer to 10,000 individuals.
Also keep in mind that populations evolve, not individuals. There was not a first person, there was a relatively large population of individuals that evolved into the first people.
At some point, there will only be 1000 people on earth
Humanity came about in different forms in different places. There were many ape tribes that would start to select for intelligence. But on individual basis. One time it was the ape that was smart at foraging. then one time it was the ape that was smart at fighting. then it was the ape that was caniving. then it was the ape that picked up a weapon. then it was the ape that understood fire. then it was the ape that grew a garden. then it was the ape with a house and a comfortable bed. then it was the ape that got into cooking. then it was the ape with a mazda miata
Humanity came about in different forms in different places. There were many ape tribes that would start to select for intelligence. But on individual basis. One time it was the ape that was smart at foraging. then one time it was the ape that was smart at fighting. then it was the ape that was caniving. then it was the ape that picked up a weapon. then it was the ape that understood fire. then it was the ape that grew a garden. then it was the ape with a house and a comfortable bed. then it was the ape that got into cooking. then it was the ape with a mazda miata
When you get to know how evolution works , you will have trouble in classifying humans at that time .
There still is a thousand people on earth. Even more too.
If every organism could be classified exactly as either [one human] or [not human] (i.e no such things as 0.5 humans or 1.8 humans in one organism, only 0 or 1) then human population is always a nonnegative integer.
And it changes discretely with time i.e +1, -1, +2 etc. Theoretically if there were 999 humans and 2 new were born at exactly the same time, plus nobody died for a very long time so that from that time there were always more than 1000 humans then it is an example of hypothetical history where there was no time point with 1000 humans.
Which also could be extended to future where we go extinct if more than 1 people die at the exact same time changing the population from more than 1000 humans to less than 1000 humans
Depends on what you call people. It was probably a slow evolution of a type of human so…where do you draw the line?
We can do that again.
“In the beginning the Universe(Humanity) was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” Douglass Adams
Not really. Unless you create a metric for precisely for when proto-people evolved into people (and even then, they weren’t entirely speciated from proto-people).
So there wasn’t much on tv?
That’s not necessarily true, as it depends at what evolutionary stage you switch to what you define as a person
They probably smelled worse but tasted better than we do now.
What if the 1000th and 1001st person were born as twins?
I am more amazed by the fact that we as a species are that widespread and our population is so high that if we were another kind of predator we would be considered a plague. Like imagine 7 billion coyotes or even just wild hogs…
Evolution is a process, what we call for Homo Erectus is only a label for a set of common traits. Very unlikely there were only 1000 people around, unless you draw very specific critieria of what that means
Think about the first evolved human that have to fuck a monkey
This of course relies upon the entire definiton of what a “Human” is.
It’s a chicken and egg situation.
Is a chicken egg a chicken egg because it is laid by a chicken, or because a chicken will hatch from it?
Evolution goes so gradually and slow, the definiton of “Human” is arbitrary. Lines in the sand. There is no Cut-off point. No single event where we can say “This is a human, but his parents were not”. So a thousand humans is a useless number.
At 999 someone had twins and we skipped 1000 and went straight to 1001