Stunning animation reveals how the world's population has grown to 7.2 BILLION

How humans took over the world: Stunning animation reveals how the world's population has grown to 7.2 BILLION *** The emergence of humans accounts for just a blink in the timeline of our planet - but in the short period that humans have lived on Earth, populations have risen to staggering numbers. A new animation from the American Museum of Natural History shows the exponential growth of our species, from less than a million people when modern humans began migrating out of Africa about 100,000 years ago to more than 7.2 billion alive today. The most dramatic increase has occurred only recently; while it took humans roughly 200,000 years to reach a population of 1 billion, it took just 200 years beyond that to get to where we are now. | DailyMail via IFTTT

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