We have the Parenthesis disease in our literature , too ; and one may see cases of it every day in our books and newspapers : but with us it is the mark and sign of an unpracticed writer or a cloudy intellect , whereas with the Germans it is doubtless the mark and sign of a practiced pen and of the presence of that sort of luminous intellectual fog ...
6) The total ant population makes our 7 billion look weak. In their Pulitzer-prize winning book The Ants, researchers Bert HÃ¶lldobler and Edward O. Wilson estimate that there are upwards of 10,000,000,000,000,000 individual ants alive on Earth at any given time.
How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? is one of PRB's most popular articles. First published in 1995 and updated in 2002, this latest 2011 article includes data through mid-2011 and a short video explaining the estimate. (October 2011) The question of how many people have ever lived on Earth is a perennial one among information calls to PRB.