A. Christian intellectuals.
National Geographic really ought to offer up their artistic rendering of early socialists.
Posted on 04/25/2008 11:04:35 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
Good post potlatch
Don’t know if you recall - I got that in email long ago and did send it to you. Thought it was so funny.
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No, to fight Global Cooling. They converged out of the need to huddle together for warmth.
It worked, too. Though many were cold, few were frozen.
Oh boy here we go again
“Let’s get together, smile on your brother”
Right now.
‘60s feelgood song.
70060s B.C. that is.
LOL
That is fairly close to 2,500 generations. Just how much genetic drift in these small populations would that involve? Would they even recognize each other as 'human'?
Probably not long enough for speciation, maybe; but not something to 'breed' peace & harmony?
That is fairly close to 2,500 generations. Just how much genetic drift in these small populations would that involve? Would they even recognize each other as 'human'?
Probably not long enough for speciation, maybe; but not something to 'breed' peace & harmony?
For true speciation I think you would need both total isolation and extreme selection pressure on the two groups, but I doubt if 70k years would be enough. A lot of the superficial traits certainly would change in that time (stature, skin color, hair form, etc.) if selection pressure was strong enough in particular directions.
Maybe some genetic types could offer an opinion on this question, if there are any still around.
Thanks. What I had in mind was along the lines of the ‘shaved monkey’ effect. Fighting rather than interbreeding.
LOLOL!
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I still think its funny!
We also survived the dramatic climatic changes that the eruptions of Lake Toba, Lake Taupo, Tambora, and Pinatubo brought...and we’ll survive Yellowstone too.
Just remember folks God has a plan and there is a time and place for each and everyone of us(like as we step out into the street tomorrow...)
Must have been millions of SUVs in that era! Or the power plants were going full throttle.
For the many commenting here who apparently have no information about truly awesome natural events that periodically kick us in the butt.
Toba volcano in Sumatra exploded about 74,000 years ago leaving a crater roughly 18 by 65 miles in diameter. By comparison, Pinitubo left one 3 miles in diameter, and some of you may remember the 500 year flood of the Mississippi, as well as very severe winter storms and icing for a couple of years. We were already in an Ice Age that began around 125,000 years ago, but got a lot worse after Toba. Many people and other living creatures would have died. After around 20,000 years enough small clusters of human population had regenerated to start spreading out and meeting one another as well as spreading to other areas like India and Australia.
According to the book “The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes” by Firestone, et al., another major disaster occurred around 13,000 years ago when comet(s) crashed into the Northern Hemisphere, destroying the Clovis culture and most of the large animals like mammoths, sabre tooth tigers, camels, etc. It also plunged us back into a 1,000 year cold period called the Younger Dryas, after which human populations began to grow again.
Climate change is no joking matter, we just don’t know how/when it is going to happen.
All speculation and hypotheses, at minimum no more believable than the Genesis account.
Comets entering our atmosphere become extremely hot—and one big enough actually hit to wipe out major strains of dinosaurs would result in a cooling period? And not knock Earth out of orbit? And kill all the dinosaurs worldwide?
I hope you got that book from the 99 cent bin.
Thanks for the ping!
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