Study Says Near Extinction Threatened People

Physorg ^ | 4-24-2008 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

[utherdoul]

global warming did it! Those nomads and their SUVs.

[stockpirate]

I do not for one minute believe that 70,000 years ago man ONLY lived in Africa.

[blam]

GGG Ping. I'm suprised...no mention of Toba.

Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . . (Toba)

[mtbopfuyn]

Wow, those woolly mammoth farts must have played havoc with the carbon footprints.

[RJS1950]

That is absurd to the maximum degree. At the end of their 100,000+ year run the Neanderthals were still around 50,000 years ago in Europe and elsewhere outside of africa. Modern man had already been around for a while at that time.

[Grimmy]

“Study Says Near Extinction Threatened People”

I tend to feel pretty dang threatened whenever anyone’s pointing a near extinction at me.

[Revolting cat!]

The Environmental Protection Agency saved us! Whew, that was close!

[Captain Rhino]

Old news repackaged for the current scare.

The Yellowstone super volcano exploded about 70,000 years ago. Human population crashed about the same time.

Coincidence?

Genetic collapse in such a short period points to a single calamitous event. A meteor hitting the Yucatan or the Yellowstone super volcano erupting puts millions of tons of particulate matter into the atmosphere at once, dramatically altering the climate. Global warming (or cooling) alters the climate more slowly giving plants and animals (including humans) more time to adjust to the changes. Times are tough but not nearly as tough as no sunshine and cold temperatures for a couple of years.

There have been a number of public television specials and at least one movie on the Yellowstone super volcano .

Yahoo or Google the term to find links.

P.S.: Of course, like every other one of da*n these extinction level events, its overdue to happen again. Enjoy your evening.

[wolfcreek]

San people?

Did they become Arabs?

[Captain Rhino]

Well, it all depends on what caliber the near extinction is and if the holder looks like they know where the safety is on the thing. ;-)

[Jeff Chandler]

"Who would have thought that as recently as 70,000 years ago, extremes of climate had reduced our population to such small numbers that we were on the very edge of extinction."

[wolfcreek]

“The Yellowstone super volcano exploded about 70,000 years ago”

Wasn’t that 640,000 yrs ago?

[Atlas Sneezed]

In genetic terms, this kind of extreme stress can be a great thing for a species, as only the very fittest (especially mentally resourceful) survive.

What nearly killed us probably made us much smarter.

[UCANSEE2]

“I do not for one minute believe that 70,000 years ago man ONLY lived in Africa.”

Maybe the implication is that we are of the generation from Africa, which survived 200,000 years (so far).

There may have been others, on other land masses, whose entire civilization disappeared. Died out from drought, from cold, from disease, from whatever.

[CzarNicky]

and yet we still have liberals.

[blam]

"The Yellowstone super volcano exploded about 70,000 years ago. Human population crashed about the same time."

See the link in post #4...that was the Toba eruption 70-75,000 years ago. Yellowstone was 640,000 years ago.

[Doomonyou]

"Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental conditions, coming back from the brink to reunite and populate the world.

Noah.

[UCANSEE2]

“What nearly killed us probably made us much smarter.”

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Which is why we now think we are responsible for the weather on Earth, and that we can control it. (/sarc)

[UCANSEE2]

“that was the Toba eruption 70-75,000 years ago. Yellowstone was 640,000 years ago. “

Wonder who lived there, in Yellowstone’s caldera, before being buried under tons of lava?