Comments on: And Then There Were Eight http://www.danvk.org/wp/2013-08-15/and-then-there-were-eight/ Keepin' static like wool fabric since 2006 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: danvk http://www.danvk.org/wp/2013-08-15/and-then-there-were-eight/comment-page-1/#comment-176629 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:17:26 +0000 http://www.danvk.org/wp/?p=1100#comment-176629 Great question! The small list of countries in this list makes me very suspicious. With their billions of people, surely there are some very elderly individuals in China and India. But the birth records aren’t so great there, so they don’t make the “official” list.

]]> By: erica dreisbach http://www.danvk.org/wp/2013-08-15/and-then-there-were-eight/comment-page-1/#comment-176627 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:08:48 +0000 http://www.danvk.org/wp/?p=1100#comment-176627 Love this ongoing coverage! Thanks for the update :)

What do you think are the odds of /unknown/ 19th century people in other long-lived geographic areas like Sardinia? Or anywhere, actually? How good are we at knowing this kind of dicrete global information?

]]> By: danvk.org » How Many Living People Were Born in the 1800s? http://www.danvk.org/wp/2013-08-15/and-then-there-were-eight/comment-page-1/#comment-176550 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:24:42 +0000 http://www.danvk.org/wp/?p=1100#comment-176550 […] Update (August 2013): this list is down to eight. […]

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