Posted on 04/24/2008 12:07:36 PM PDT by Sopater
WASHINGTON — Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests.
The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released Thursday.
The report notes that a separate study by researchers at Stanford University estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age.
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“Hmmm. I suspect those with was less hair = less bugs = less disease. They survived to reproduce.”
Obviously the survivors were not French women.
There is extinction humor in this thread.
you don’t suppose this supposed draught was kicked in by the Toba eruption do you?
Might explain how it is the human race seems to be so retarded as to believe such things as Global Warming.
Wouldn’t that generation of children be pretty inbred?”
They would have been inbred in each location where they survived in small numbers. However, as they multiplied, spread out and encountered other humans, crossbreeding would have occurred in various combinations.
Regarding Ice Ages. We have been having one roughly every 100,000 year for the past million years. There are good charts out there on this. In fact, we are about due for one now or within the next 1,000 years. Since we are only beginning to study the role of interstellar objects and megavolcanoes on our climate, it is hard to say what will cause the next crisis that kills most of us off. Still harder is to predict when.
One of those big 'babies' could blow tonight and then tomorrow...well, you know. (I'll be looking for that Norway seed vault, lol)
What’s the news, my ex stinks since 5 years ago!
True minus the “Also”.
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