The infographic is counting humans back to 10,000 years ago for the total dead.
But elsewhere in this thread, people are saying bipedal apes with human sized brains have been around anywhere from 50k to 5m years.
So if we’re willing to count our slightly different cousins, whom we could probably relate to if we met them, the column of the dead in the picture would be much deeper.
That makes me think being skeptical was a good idea here. 10 kya cutoff is an interesting and significant piece of this graphic.
That’s one of your key answers there:
The infographic is counting humans back to 10,000 years ago for the total dead.
But elsewhere in this thread, people are saying bipedal apes with human sized brains have been around anywhere from 50k to 5m years.
So if we’re willing to count our slightly different cousins, whom we could probably relate to if we met them, the column of the dead in the picture would be much deeper.
That makes me think being skeptical was a good idea here. 10 kya cutoff is an interesting and significant piece of this graphic.