[colorado tanker]

Why would this be news? I read in a GGG post a while back now that there have been about seven attempts by humans or hominids to colonize the British Isles. So, colonizing the place during the interglacials but being driven out by the glacial periods would seem to be a pattern, no?

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Generally, the older the era, the fewer the people; clearly there must be either something a little wrong with that statement, *or* there was a long, long, long period of stasis, *or* there have been a number of waves of population growth terminated by some natural event; reaching a theoretical first mating pair wouldn’t take that many generations. :’)

Anyway, with fewer people, there are fewer remains to find because fewer were made in the first place — give or take having the ancestors’ former habitat covered by the oceans now because they lived on what is now the continental shelf.

Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil [ dredged up from the North Sea ]
BBC | Monday, June 15, 2009 | Paul Rincon
Posted on 06/15/2009 8:19:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2272129/posts