How Many and What Fraction of the World's People Live

question 107

Essay

How many and what fraction of the world's people live in advanced economies? In emerging market and developing economies?

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Definitions:

Homoplasy

The occurrence of similar traits in species due to convergent evolution or parallel evolution, not shared ancestry.

Illustrates

Shows or provides examples to clarify or make something visible or understandable, often used in the context of explaining concepts with diagrams or images.

Whale Intermediates

Transitional fossil forms that provide evidence for the evolutionary lineage of whales from land-dwelling mammals.

Four-Legged

Pertaining to organisms, primarily terrestrial vertebrates, that have four limbs, a characteristic feature of tetrapods including mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.