[Frobenius]

If you run the numbers, something interesting pops up...

2,000 people 70,000 years ago to yield a present population of 6.6-billion says that the human population has grown orver that period at the rate of 0.02% per year... (not 2% but 0.02%)

Amazing when you think about it - I suppose all that pestilence, wild animals, wars, and all the rest...

Who was it that said that Somalia is the norm for humanity around the world outside of the Western Civilized aberation?

[allmendream]

You assume that the rate was constant growth over that time period.

Human population increased when we moved from food procurement to a food production lifestyle.

Human population would have risen exponentially from those 2,000 people and then leveled off when they had filled all available livable land and started to compete with other people for resources.

Human population was pretty stable at something less than one billion people for most of human history; until industrial agriculture and modern medicine combined with the subsistence mentality of most the world to produce our worlds six billion people.

[blam]

"Who was it that said that Somalia is the norm for humanity around the world outside of the Western Civilized aberation? "

I don't know but the world doesn't appreciate the advantages of Western civilization.

[good1]

If you run the numbers, something interesting pops up

I have it from an infallible source that approximately 8-9000 years ago the population of the entire earth was reduced to 8 people as a result of a worldwide flood.

Run the numbers on the basis of 8 people 9000 years ago, and see what you come up with. Let me know, if you would.