How can more people be alive today than ever lived?

Subject: How can more people be alive today than ever lived?

Date: Wed Apr 5 23:47:19 2000
Posted by Patrick MCgee
Grade level: teacher/prof School: No school entered.
City: Reno State/Province: Nevada Country: USA
Area of science: Evolution
ID: 954996439.Ev

Message:


Twice I have read the assertion that more people are alive today than ever 
lived. This has to be a mathematical estimate, but would you explain this?

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