Thinking about signatures of
recent selection, here's some maps from
Worldmapper that show population in year 1, year 1500, year 1900, year 1960 (in order, as you scroll down). I was interested where and when human populations grew the most. First here's a graph showing human population growth on a larger time scale:
![](//2.bp.blogspot.com/_dRj9DN75euI/Rgf4IqRWaSI/AAAAAAAAAHA/Wl_-SS8onyU/s400/populationgrowth.jpg)
![](//3.bp.blogspot.com/_dRj9DN75euI/Rgf3t6RWaRI/AAAAAAAAAG4/jL9eeub1kdM/s400/pop1.png)
![](//2.bp.blogspot.com/_dRj9DN75euI/Rgf3lqRWaQI/AAAAAAAAAGw/AVegN3CQEPs/s400/pop1500.png)
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