But it's a shame that the event 900k years ago didn't clear all of the progressivism from the gene pool.
Our own 'bottleneck' is sure to come.
We call it ‘the great flood’
Maybe it was climate change....too much fossil fuel being used.
if CNN wasn’t there to report on it did it really happen? let’s ask Andrea. she looks old enough to have been there.
“ The population of breeding individuals was reduced to just 1,280 and didn’t expand again for another 117,000 years.”
That is ridiculous. There is no way that information is known.
Second, it was a flood.
Third, there will be another judgement - by FIRE!
They refused to stop and ask for directions.
That’s when the smart ones left Africa........................
I bet it was those evil SUVs.
The article is utter Bullshit!
This is complete, absolute, unadulterated bull shit. There is just no way anyone on the face of this Earth could possibly state with any accuracy that there were just 1,280 breeding individuals 900,000 years ago.
It’s sad, just sad how science has become fictionalized erratic propaganda. Much of it for political purposes. Much of this has happened since the leftists of the world took over the western culture.
In the past hundred years or so there have been great strides made in the advancement of aviation, medicine, transportation, electronics, just to name a few. If science had always been a joke such as this article, we’d still be traveling by horse, there’d be no airplanes, radios and we’d be using witch doctors for medicine.
Sorry for the rant, but this level of BS ticks me off.
next they are going to say that they were socialists, and that socialism saved the human race
Supposedly a group of 25 chimpanzees will have more variation in their DNA than the entire human race has, because of that bottleneck.
Because each of us is the product of a unique combination of matings between myriads of ancestors over thousands of generations, if that massive die-off had not occurred, none of us would be here now, because other pairings of men and women (from the other 98.7%) would have produced different children who would have different descendants alive now.
900,000 years ago there were what, 4 ?
The technique “put the spotlight on the period 800,000 to one million years ago - for which there is much unknown - in a way that hasn’t been done before,” says Stanley Ambrose, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.This period was part of the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition - a time of drastic climate change, when glacial cycles became longer and more intense. In Africa, this led to long periods of drought. Li says that the changing climate might have wiped out human ancestors and forced new human species to emerge. Eventually, these might have evolved into the last common ancestor of modern humans and our extinct relatives, the Denisovans and Neanderthals.
We do however know that around 1,300,000 BC - Yellowstone, Huckleberry Ridge, Wyoming, U.S. (Super Volcano) Erupted, followed by 1,100,000 BC - Valles Caldera, Jemez Mountains, U.S. (Super Volcano) Eruption.
So the 2 super volcanic eruptions could have made drastic environmental changes, which could account for this latest theory of population decline.
Interestingly, this same volcanic scenario would be repeated around 74,000 BC and another drastic population decline.
Clues from modern DNA To make their discovery, the researchers needed to invent new tools.
Maybe these people have the same problem.
TM
They must have missed that within the last 5,000 years we were down to only 8 people.
1280 breeders over 117000 years... that’s some serious inbreeding.
Too many campfires.
COVID 900000 BC?