This isn't an assignment, test question or of academic origin in any way.
A question occurred to me a moment ago. How many human beings (Homo sapiens: of genus Homo and species sapiens) have lived, cumulatively? I am uncertain about how to actually go about figuring this out. I imagine it would involve an equation for calculating population growth. The fact that the earliest Homo sapiens found lived around 100,000 years ago would need to be taken in to account. I also imagine with a population equation in hand it would be possible to work from the Earth's current population backwards, cumulatively adding up all the estimated humans. I've tried looking for population equations but I have found a few and am uncertain which would be best to use.
I am eager to see if anyone has any thoughts, or even better, an approximate answer to the question of how many human beings have lived on planet Earth?
P.S. According to Ask.com, the human population of planet earth is 6,446,131,400.
A question occurred to me a moment ago. How many human beings (Homo sapiens: of genus Homo and species sapiens) have lived, cumulatively? I am uncertain about how to actually go about figuring this out. I imagine it would involve an equation for calculating population growth. The fact that the earliest Homo sapiens found lived around 100,000 years ago would need to be taken in to account. I also imagine with a population equation in hand it would be possible to work from the Earth's current population backwards, cumulatively adding up all the estimated humans. I've tried looking for population equations but I have found a few and am uncertain which would be best to use.
I am eager to see if anyone has any thoughts, or even better, an approximate answer to the question of how many human beings have lived on planet Earth?
P.S. According to Ask.com, the human population of planet earth is 6,446,131,400.