200,000 Years of Staggering Human Population Growth Shown in an Animated Map | EduSource | Scoop.it

(...) Evolving some 200,000 years ago in Sub-Saharan Africa, and migrating across the globe some 100,000 years ago, modern humans remained relatively few in number for several thousand years. That is, until the technological breakthrough of agriculture. “By AD 1,” the video text tells us, “world population reached approximately 170 million people.” (...)