If Homosapiens survived the last mass extinction how is there almost 8 billions Humans now? Are we all related? Is every human related in some way?

Question

If Homosapiens survived the last mass extinction how is there almost 8 billions Humans now? Are we all related? Is every human related in some way?

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Answer 1

>8 billions

This is because of exponential growth in the recent past, mass extinctions before that don’t really matter at all

Here’s a chart of human population over time

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population

10,000 years ago, there were about 7.25 _million_ people.

2,000 years ago, there were about 230 million people

500 years ago, there were about 500 million people

200 years ago, there were about 1 billion people

100 years ago, there were about 2 billion people

50 years ago, world population hit about half what it is now.

So you can see, 8 billion is about what’s happened in the past couple hundred years, namely, the industrial revolution.