In a word,
no.
However, it is an interesting thing to think about. For so long, the population of
homo sapiens sapiens was extremely low, then the scientific revolution came along, allowing modern medicine & agriculture to develop and BOOM! the population explosion we are in happens. Check out this graph from http://www.sustainablescale.org:
Even if you were to extend the time axis backwards to around 200,000 BC when we think our subspecies evolved from the simpler, archaic homo sapiens, the populations were so low that there would not be much area under the curve. However, the popular number for all homo sapiens sapiens dead is around 60 billion (that's for around 7500 generations between you and the first "modern" man). That's less than 10 dead for each one of us alive today. Kind of creepy the way we are swarming the surface of this planet, eh?
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