re: tower of babel (Till)

Aubrey Matthews (paubrey@castles.com)
Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:24:24 -0800

Till,
>TILL
>You can't determine world population thousands of years ago on the basis of
>how population has grown over the past 300 years, because you don't have
>enough information about conditions on earth 20,000 years ago. There could
>have been, and undoubtedly were conditions that checked population growth
>much more than in recent centuries. How do you know, for example, how many
>epidemics may have eradicated large populations of humans in, say, 52,000 B.C.?

I just went by what is reliable over the last 400 years. I can't say
anything about 52000 B.C. in reqards to the population. It would be an
assumption.
Aubrey
>

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