Humans re-united to fight extinction

AFP via. The Times of India ^ | 25 Apr 2008, 1932 hrs IST | AFP

[stockpirate]

I do not think that 70,000 years ago this event is true based on a small region of the world.

Get real, next you will trying to sell me something about Global Warming, oh wait, never mind.

[wendy1946]

The BS meter just got pegged on that one. How would small groups of humans living across a large continent find eachother to “re-unite” 70K years ago? Cell phones??

[KarlInOhio]

Humans re-united to fight extinction

Was there any evidence that the populations reunited as opposed to all but the main population dying out, followed by a massive exansion from that remaining center?

[Smokin' Joe]

Smoke signals!

Seriously, I thought this was a new movement from the headline...

[Wavrnr10]

I think Meave Leakey some brain tissue. If that was the case more and more human remains would have been found before the finding of so many reptilian fossils. Nice try but your 15 minutes are up.

[TexasNative2000]

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

Well, if you define Noah's family as a "tiny band of early humans" and describe The Flood as "harsh environmental conditions" he's got it right.

[Soliton]

The can trace mitochondrial markers in the DNA. They can see when groups diverged, and they can see when those groups began swapping genes again.

[Coyoteman]

The BS meter just got pegged on that one. How would small groups of humans living across a large continent find eachother to “re-unite” 70K years ago? Cell phones??

Jungle telegraph.

(Ted, is that you?)

[driftdiver]

Of course they didn’t have cell phones, they used coconut phones.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

60,000 years ago was the beginning of the last glacial period.

Humans would have been forced together towards the equator to survive.

[atc23]

"The BS meter just got pegged on that one. How would small groups of humans living across a large continent find each other to “reunite” 70K years ago? Cell phones??" Providence?

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

"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,"

Human beings survive in desert and arctic climates, a temperature range more than 150 degrees Fahrenheit. Any extreme climate change would have wiped out most other creatures that are still here. This is global warming BS.

[driftdiver]

“They can see when groups diverged, and they can see when those groups began swapping genes again”

I have a bridge to sell ya if you believe they can do this accurately.

[DesertSapper]

These groups “re-converged” to fight global warming!

[ASA Vet]

Pingski

[meandog]

The BS meter just got pegged on that one. How would small groups of humans living across a large continent find eachother to “re-unite” 70K years ago? Cell phones??

Ever hear of cumbayah? Sound carries!

[driftdiver]

“Humans would have been forced together towards the equator to survive.”

Well that narrows it down, NOT. 2,000 spread out around the equator are not going to find each other. Small groups may have survived in this region but its not like Aunt Ugabugga suddenly decided to move back in with her sister 12,000 miles away.

[Soliton]

I have a bridge to sell ya if you believe they can do this accurately,i>

You wouldn't argue if it didn't impact your religious belief

[wildbill]

If Mitrocondial Eve is the mother of all these divergent groups might one speculate there was wife swapping to provide the gene swapping?

I guess the guys threw all their clubs in a pile and she went back to the batchelor cave with whichever guy owned the club she picked out.