Has There Ever Been a Day When No Human Died?

<p>Has there ever been a day when <strong>no human died?</strong></p><p>Today I trace that question from modern mortality rates all the way back into <strong>human prehistory</strong>, when Homo sapiens numbered only a tiny fraction of today&#39;s population.</p><p>Along the way: the <strong>Toba supervolcano</strong>, a controversial human population bottleneck, hunter-gatherer mortality, and the bizarre reason Britain once had <strong>11 dates that never existed</strong>.</p><p>Could there really have been a day when every human on Earth survived? The math gets surprisingly interesting.</p><p><strong>Sources:</strong>• Ambrose, S. H. (1998). <em>Journal of Human Evolution, 34</em>(6), 623–651.• Gurven, M., &amp; Kaplan, H. (2007). <em>Population and Development Review, 33</em>(2), 321–365.• United Nations. (2022). <em>World Population Prospects 2022.</em>• World Health Organization. (2020). <em>Global Health Estimates 2020.</em>• Poole, R. (1998). <em>Time&#39;s Alteration.</em> UCL Press.• Maddison Project Database. University of Groningen.</p><p>Music thanks to Zapsplat.</p><p>#HumanHistory #Prehistory #hypothetical #anthropologyfacts #LearnOnSpotify</p><p><br></p>