人们常问,自从出现了最早的人类以来,地球上究竟生活过多少人?这能计算出来吗? 法国作家安德烈·莫里斯认为,就其数量概念而言,人类是由死亡者多于生存者组成的。某人死了,英国人常常说死者“回到大多数人那里去了”。统计地球上究竟生活过多少人确非易事,最大难题之一是,无法确切计算出曾在森林、沙漠和沼泽地游荡的原始人究竟有多少。谁都算不出来那个时代究竟有多少儿童出生和死亡。然而,科学、最 People often ask how many people have lived on earth since the earliest human beings? Could this be calculated? André Morris, the French writer, thinks that human beings, in terms of their quantitative concepts, have more people who die than men Survivor composition. When someone dies, the British often say that the deceased “returned to the majority”. One of the biggest challenges in finding out exactly how many people live on Earth is the inability to calculate exactly how many primitive people wandered in the woods, deserts and swamps. No one knows how many children were born and died at that time. However, science is the most