The human species may be more than 100,000 years old but the bulk of its numerical growth has come in just the last few decades: 2.6 billion of today's 5.6 billion people have been born since 1960.
Population growth has expanded rapidly in the near past
Does not define recent past
( z1 expand :ARG1 ( z2 grow :ARG1 ( z3 population ) ) :manner ( z4 rapid ) :time ( z5 past :ARG1-of ( z6 near ) ) )