[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Some place the worldwide human population after the Toba explosion as low as 2,000 people.

I bet they were conservatives. Liberals ("give me half your pie, because I didn't make one") came later, after the conservatives rebuilt the world.

Thanks for this very interesting post. These folks doing the genetic marker tracking are doing great work. It is interesting to note that, if traces of hominid occupation of North America can be traced a far back a 35,000 years, This means that these early people traveled fast, far, and wide. Simply amazing.

[blam]

"These folks doing the genetic marker tracking are doing great work. It is interesting to note that, if traces of hominid occupation of North America can be traced a far back a 35,000 years, This means that these early people traveled fast, far, and wide. Simply amazing. "

"I expect that we'll eventually find that humans were stranded in South America during the Volcano Winter caused by the Toba explosion and were not re-united with the world's other humans until thousands of years later."

From my post #2.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

I bet they were conservatives. Liberals ("give me half your pie, because I didn't make one") came later, after the conservatives rebuilt the world.

Liberalism (the lazy assed give me yours because you owe me something type) can really only exist in a surplus food society that exists like today.

When every day is spent grubbing a subsistence level existence, there isn't much time for naval gazing or figuring out ways to safely steal what doesn't belong to you. Besides, those with liberal tendencies would probably have ended up with a stone ax embedded in his forehead for his troubles.

In a way, it's a shame we're so civilized today...