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Let's see, reproduction over 194,000 years would be very very high.... where did all the children run off too? There must have been huge cities as far as the eye can see. What happened to it all, as there is no trace.



No, sorry, this is not correct.

Rates of human reproduction are not consistent, nor is population growth the norm. In primitive, hunter-gatherer populations, populations growth is very low, even flat.

It's well known that in certain primitive societies, there are self-regulatory methods for reducing reproduction, such as a celebacy period of several years after the birth of a child (in some African tribe, like the San i think). It believed that because hunter-gatherers are usually semi-nomadic, and have no means of continous food production, that a flat population growth rate is generlally favorable.

Population growth didn't begin to increase substantially until after the development of agriculture, around 8000-9000 thousand years ago. However, even then, growth was FAR lower than it is today in the developing world. As a side note, the native Australian aborigines never developed agriculture, and so their populations remained fairly stable.

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