[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

'but based on more recent, better-known glacial stages, climatologists surmise that it was almost certainly cool and arid and that its deserts were probably significantly expanded relative to their modern extents. Much of the landmass would have been uninhabitable.'

Surmise -- kind of a weak reed there, guys.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s journalism for ya. Years of shilling for AGW has warped what passes for their thinking — natural climate change not only couldn’t have been serious, it may not have ever happened at all. :’)

[Candor7]

Weak Reed indeed:

“A detailed record of Africa’s environmental conditions during glacial stage 6 does not exist.....”

They do not really know.There could have been humans in other parts of the world 200,000 years ago,and I am pretty skeptical that the view is not somewhat politically driven.

Peking Man is dated ti about 750,000 years ago, and was a hominid, not homo sapiens, ,but there were homo sapiens there in China before this so called bottle neck, based on a geological record later of human existance that is yet to be proven to have come out of Africa.It is more likely that there were groups of hominids around the world that evolved to be humans along several different lines.

So we are to believe that all human beings died off except for a few African humans who were the progenitors of the entire human race? Thats just so pimpin’ bro!

It is also baloney.