The phrase "a billion humans" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a large population or discussing global issues that affect a significant number of people.
Example: "The new policy aims to improve the living conditions of a billion humans around the world."
Alternatives: "one billion people" or "a billion individuals".
(A close cousin infects more than a billion humans).
There were about half a billion humans wandering around then, and about 80% of them were living hand-to-mouth through subsistence agriculture.
There were about half a billion humans wandering around then, and about 80percentt of them were living hand-to-mouth existences and relying on subsistence agriculture.
Is any adjective too hyperbolic when you're talking about a billion humans fighting for survival amidst storms and oceans drained of life--in just 90 years?
We all have some stake in who the leader of over a billion humans will be because we have seen how influential the past Popes have been.
If we look at the entire planet, the numbers from the UN FAO show that one-third of the world's food is either lost or wasted, making the food waste a global shame on the face of human civilization, especially when almost a billion humans on this planet are either starving or undernourished.
That's significant because Cushing's afflicts only one in a million humans, making it a difficult disease to study.
Just two Neanderthal females in a group of around a hundred humans would have been enough to leave such a trace in our genome, provided that was the group that gave rise to all modern humans outside Africa.
That might sound boring, but when you're watching a middle-aged man shovelling cow poo with half a hundred humans grimacing behind him, it's like witnessing somebody with Imaginary Friend Syndrome having a breakdown.
More than a hundred human rights organisations including Amnesty International have pressured the US to close Guantanamo.
