Jul 29 2009
The First Population Explosion: Human Numbers Expanded Dramatically Millennia Before Agriculture
Ten millennia ago, there were about six million people on Earth. Today, there are six billion.
This thousandfold increase in the global population is often thought to be linked to the invention of farming and the domestication of animals about 13,000 years ago in the Near East. Growing crops and raising live animals requires a larger [...]
