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Study: Humans Almost Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago
Fox News ^ | Thursday, April 24, 2008 | AP

Posted on 04/24/2008 12:07:36 PM PDT by Sopater

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Also about 4,500 years ago because of flooding.
1 posted on 04/24/2008 12:07:36 PM PDT by Sopater
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To: Sopater

It was the SUV’s; (vide Flintstones).


2 posted on 04/24/2008 12:09:44 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Gosh! I sure envy you guys who get in before the Tard Ping!)
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To: Sopater

Bush’s Fault.


3 posted on 04/24/2008 12:10:22 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Sopater

I thought this was caused by the Toba volcano eruption.


4 posted on 04/24/2008 12:10:53 PM PDT by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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To: Sopater

Floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, volcanos, tsunamis; the earth has been trying to kill us for >100,000 years. It’s time we returned the favor.


5 posted on 04/24/2008 12:11:51 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: Sopater

There were was a housing bubble and a rice shortage at the time.


6 posted on 04/24/2008 12:11:51 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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Gee, how did such a tiny group of humans manage to cause a worldwide drought?


7 posted on 04/24/2008 12:12:02 PM PDT by American Quilter (AIDS...drugs...abortion--don't liberals just kill you?)
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To: Sopater

A little setback now and then tends to cull the herd. We’re overdue.


8 posted on 04/24/2008 12:12:25 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Sopater

This is a green weenie’s fantasy come true.


9 posted on 04/24/2008 12:12:55 PM PDT by gridlock (Proud McCain Supporter since February 8, 2008.)
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

LOL!


10 posted on 04/24/2008 12:12:58 PM PDT by American Quilter (AIDS...drugs...abortion--don't liberals just kill you?)
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To: Sopater

So we were an endangered species due to global climate change. I say we put humans on the Endangered Species List. Then it will be illegal to kill humans in their embryonic form.


11 posted on 04/24/2008 12:13:27 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (There's more proof that Operation Chaos is working than there is proof that Global Warming is real.)
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To: rednesss
"The Toba eruption (the Toba event) occurred at what is now Lake Toba about 67,500 to 75,500 years ago."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_eruption

12 posted on 04/24/2008 12:13:44 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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To: Sopater

Yep.


13 posted on 04/24/2008 12:14:08 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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Study: Humans Almost Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago

Should have called GEICO.

14 posted on 04/24/2008 12:14:59 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released Thursday.

Does this mean we should all put "African-Americans" down as our race????

15 posted on 04/24/2008 12:15:10 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: NaughtiusMaximus

I guess some drivers refused to retrofit their 68,003BC Hummer H2s with modern pollution controls, leading to this environmental disaster...


16 posted on 04/24/2008 12:15:26 PM PDT by gridlock (Proud McCain Supporter since February 8, 2008.)
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald
wikipedia:

Though the year can never be precisely determined, the season can: only the summer monsoon could have deposited Toba ashfall in the South China Sea, implying that the eruption took place sometime during the northern summer.[7] The eruption lasted perhaps two weeks, but the ensuing "volcanic winter" resulted in a decrease in average global temperatures by 3 to 3.5 degrees Celsius for several years. Greenland ice cores record a pulse of starkly reduced levels of organic carbon sequestration. Very few plants or animals in southeast Asia would have survived, and it is possible that the eruption caused a planet-wide die-off. There is some evidence, based on mitochondrial DNA, that the human race may have passed through a genetic bottleneck within this timeframe, reducing genetic diversity below what would be expected from the age of the species. According to the Toba catastrophe theory proposed by Stanley H. Ambrose of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998, human populations may have been reduced to only a few tens of thousands of individuals by the Toba eruption.[8]

17 posted on 04/24/2008 12:16:21 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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To: American Quilter

Ethanol.


18 posted on 04/24/2008 12:17:49 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Sopater

Agreed!


19 posted on 04/24/2008 12:19:38 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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“The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought,.....”

Natural causes rather than Dem/Leftist-Greenie induced causes.


20 posted on 04/24/2008 12:21:33 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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