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To: dsc

What happened 60,000 years before the period under didcussion is moot. Do you have any idea how long 60,000 years is? The entirety of our known civilization only goes back a mere 8,000 years.

Whatever genes existed in the pre-Toba population which do not exist now is unknown. Those putative missing genes are just that: speculative. They make no difference to human evolution. Moot.

And 10,000 survivors is a rather high number, the actual number may be only 2,000. The Late Pleistocene was a rough time for humanity.


87 posted on 01/30/2012 4:50:32 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

“They make no difference to human evolution. Moot.”

Perhaps we’re quibbling over the definition of the word “moot.”

A dieback in the human population to 10,000, or 2,000, cannot possibly be irrelevant to human evolution.


88 posted on 01/30/2012 12:06:42 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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