OWID claims that there were ~9 billion people, or about 8%, of people before the agricultural revolution. So I don’t think you can get to quite as low as ~1%.
If we make the simplifying assumption that everybody in the past are ancestors, then we get 8% non-farmers. This assumption is ofc false, but if it’s true across a fairly small number of generations, farmers will outweigh non-farmers as you say.
According to this article, the halfway point for “number of humans who have ever lived” is between 1 CE and 1200 CE.
OWID claims that there were ~9 billion people, or about 8%, of people before the agricultural revolution. So I don’t think you can get to quite as low as ~1%.
If we make the simplifying assumption that everybody in the past are ancestors, then we get 8% non-farmers. This assumption is ofc false, but if it’s true across a fairly small number of generations, farmers will outweigh non-farmers as you say.
According to this article, the halfway point for “number of humans who have ever lived” is between 1 CE and 1200 CE.