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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am not the person you replied to but I believe they were referring to Homo sapiens being said to have emerged roughly 2-300k years ago, so 0.3 million, not "millions" (plural). Homo the genus might be a mil or two, but not the species, although you said "humankind" thus implying the species.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe it's just lost in translation. In my native language we'd call homo erectus etc. (primal) humans, so for me they are part of the humankind although they're not modern humans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I don't know what I expected when I started scrolling through comments, but I certainly didn't expect "how long humanity has survived depends on how you define 'people' "