It’s equally possible that there was more than one or even a day where only people were born and no one died.
There was a low point where only about 2,000 humans were estimated to be alive. Certainly you couldn’t have had someone dying everyday then
It’s equally possible that there was more than one or even a day where only people were born and no one died.
There was a low point where only about 2,000 humans were estimated to be alive. Certainly you couldn’t have had someone dying everyday then
I read the full paper and I’m not qualified to evaluate the validity of the model being proposed but I find the idea that the population was
rather implausible. Implausible things sometimes turn out to be true but models frequently turn out to be wrong so if I were to bet, I would bet on the latter.
Plus, for the purpose of the OP, I think neanderthals and other close relatives of modern humans should count as people even if they have no living descendants.