[blam]

At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was somewhere on the order of 5 million.

[Drammach]

I've just gotta argue with the logic of that population chart..

There's been a few major disasters in our past..
They've killed off major chunks of the world population..
And then there's the plagues.. some major die-offs there as well..

I'm guessing.... ( I admit it, I'm guessing )
There were larger populations in the past than that chart indicates..
It just shows what was left after the disasters at various points in our history..

This may be exaggerated, or overblown, but I seem to remember that the last great plague, in the 13th or 14th century killed off something like 1/3 of the population of europe.. and did similar damage in other parts of the world..
Add those deaths / losses as you move back in time, and the population in ancient times becomes larger..

[newfreep]

So Adam & Eve lived 50,000 BC?

[P.O.E.]

Neat chart - Wonder if heaven has arches instead of gates...”Billions & Billions served”