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Study: Humans Almost Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago
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| Thursday, April 24, 2008
| AP
Posted on 04/24/2008 12:07:36 PM PDT by Sopater
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To: Sopater
That must be why to this day. You cant get good help at 7-11.
To: American Quilter
This was caused during global warming, version 1.0. During these pitiful years....humans set too many campfires, killed too many turtles and mammoths....and refused to dig pits for toilet purposes.
Later...as Al Gorestone preached to Krog and Becky about their wasteful lifestyle...everyone got carbon in their lifestyle and agreed to buy carbon credits from Gorestone...with shiny black rocks. Sadly, Krog wasn’t honest about this business...and still lit too many campfires. Later, Becky got close to a member of the Gorestone society, and ran away with another caveman. This set Krog back a bit...and he had to visit with Dr Philstone who got Krog’s grove back into circulation.
Krog ended up on “Dancing with Cavmen”...where he placed 3rd and was offered a job with “Hot-Rocks-R-Us” and became a star salesman. As Krog made it big...he left in pursuit a new gal...and headed north out of the drought area...and met Carla who was a bit of a flirt but definitely Krog’s type
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/24/2008 12:27:12 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
To: gridlock
This is a green weenies fantasy come true.The truly radical environmentalists are saying "so close."
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posted on
04/24/2008 12:27:23 PM PDT
by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: rednesss
There were climate changes pursuant to the Toba eruption.
Drought? Certainly.
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posted on
04/24/2008 12:29:14 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Sopater
There’s a culling going on in Chicago.
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posted on
04/24/2008 12:41:21 PM PDT
by
toddlintown
(Censorship is alive and well.)
To: Sopater
Paleontologist Meave Leakey, a Genographic adviser, commented: "Who would have thought that as recently as 70,000 years ago, extremes of climate had reduced our population to such small numbers that we were on the very edge of extinction?" What a dumbass. Hard to believe he's/she's a grandson/daughter of Louis Leaky. Global Warming garbage stuffed into what was to be a science article.
To: Sopater
This is not "news" by any means.
What is remarkable are some of the theories of how the humans survived this period. One very famous theory is that humans moved to the litoral zones (e.g. - the seashore) and became semi-aquatic fish catchers for thousands of years, and in the process started to lose much of their body hair and become more 'streamlined' heading in the same evolutionary direction as the dolphins.
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posted on
04/24/2008 12:45:57 PM PDT
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: Sopater
Yeah but that was Wrath of God.
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posted on
04/24/2008 12:47:11 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Vote Obama 2008 for a bitter America.)
To: NaughtiusMaximus
Man was nearly extinct 70,000 years ago...
![](http://www.famous-couple.com/pics/fred_flintstone-wilma_slaghoople.jpg)
Massive Flintstone mobile induced global warming!
To: ricks_place
And open pit barbecue...
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posted on
04/24/2008 12:50:01 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Vote Obama 2008 for a bitter America.)
To: chilepepper
Hmmm. I suspect those with was less hair = less bugs = less disease. They survived to reproduce.
To: GingisK
That’s why we learned how to make nukes...
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posted on
04/24/2008 12:55:38 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
To: Always Right
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posted on
04/24/2008 12:57:00 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
To: Sopater
The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released Thursday. Where did the Neanderthals hang out and how did they survive?
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posted on
04/24/2008 1:00:48 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Obama: America is the greatest country on the earth, Help me bring change.)
To: Sopater
Also about 4,500 years ago because of flooding.Yep. And it was only 8, not a few thousand. Oh yeah, and it was near Mt Ararat, modern day Turkey, not Africa. Oh well, science will eventually get there...
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posted on
04/24/2008 1:11:22 PM PDT
by
jimmyray
To: rednesss
Yes, that’s what I thought. The Toba explosion created a genetic bottleneck along the coast and interior of India.
To: Sopater
Only 2000 humans might have been left? Wouldn’t that generation of children be pretty inbred?
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posted on
04/24/2008 1:35:50 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
To: Mr. Lucky
Ethanol. Sucks as a internal combustion engine fuel, try it w/ grapefruit juice on the rocks.
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
04/24/2008 1:36:39 PM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: Mike Darancette
Where did the Neanderthals hang out and how did they survive?
I would imagine that during the drought, they ate those who were not like them, causing the near extinction of humans. When it was scientifically found that the drought (later called "global climate change") was actually caused by the flatulence produced by the growing numbers of humanivorous Neanderthals, regulations were quickly implemented that made it difficult at first, and eventually impossible for them to survive. Their caves were foreclosed upon and those that didn't assimilate to the new "culture" were eventually weeded out and eradicated from the population.
It's just a theory, but I'm sure the DNA would tell the same story if you would just ask it.
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posted on
04/24/2008 1:44:23 PM PDT
by
Sopater
(A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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