[mbourgon]

Not quite. The article says that nobody really knows what happened 780,000 years ago, whether there were more mutations or a die-off or what. But saying a "few thousand" grossly understates the timeframe involved.

[Larry Lucido]

"The article says that nobody really knows what happened 780,000 years ago"

If it involves Bush's National Guard service, I'm sure Dan Rather will have a memo on it from that era.

[Truth666]

"the article says that nobody really knows what happened 780,000 years ago ... But saying a "few thousand" grossly understates the timeframe involved.
It's exactly the other way round.