Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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September 3, 2026
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Over 100,000,000,000 people have ever lived. Choose one. You'll draw, step by step: a year, a place, a life, each taken at random from real data. When were they born? Almost everyone who ever lived was born recently, because population grew exponentially, so a random birth is far more likely to fall near the present. years before present · (log scale) Where in the world? Brighter clusters held mor...
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