Study Says Near Extinction Threatened People

Physorg ^ | 4-24-2008 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

[Interesting Times]

Wonder who lived there, in Yellowstone’s caldera, before being buried under tons of lava?

Anyone in the caldera would have been spared the inconvenience of being buried under lava, having been instantly vaporized by the explosion.

[calex59]

Meave Leakey is the wife of Richard Leakey.

Yes, and both of them certified that Lucy was a human but were later proved wrong by the French, Lucy was a Chimpazee and nothing more. Leakey was wrong on many things, he wanted to be right so bad and to find the "missing link" so bad he falsified and lied about information.

[Dog Gone]

Lucy was a Chimpazee and nothing more.

I'm sure the scientific community will be stunned and impressed with your conclusions.

By the way, I've seen Lucy, and she doesn't look like a chimpanzee to me. Not much taller though.

She would have been lousy at basketball.

[Coyoteman]

Meave Leakey is the wife of Richard Leakey.

Yes, and both of them certified that Lucy was a human but were later proved wrong by the French, Lucy was a Chimpazee and nothing more. Leakey was wrong on many things, he wanted to be right so bad and to find the "missing link" so bad he falsified and lied about information.

Lucy was discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson. Meave Leakey had no role in that whatsoever. You must be thinking of Mary Leakey, wife of Louis Leakey? She suggested that Lucy belonged to genus Homo. (Genus Homo and modern humans are not the same things.)

And your claim that Lucy was nothing more than a chimpanzee is not borne out by the studies that have been conducted. Lucy has a mix of modern and ancient traits, and does fit somewhere between chimpanzee and modern humans.

Perhaps before you lecture us on evolution and the details and personalities involved in these studies, you could learn a little more about them first?

[blam]

"Right you are, but my point was that if man reached near extinction at 70,000 years ago then why the heck were the Neanderthal and modern man doing running around together 50,000 years ago ,and before that, in quite large numbers."

I get it now. I agree.

Something seems suspicious about the DNA information..... and, I've thought so for a while now.

[SunkenCiv]

you’ve been beaten to the punch, which does *NOT* happen very often:

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
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006457/posts

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[SunkenCiv]

Bravo calex59.

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

[shadowgovernment]

“Something seems suspicious about the DNA information..... and, I've thought so for a while now.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...................
BINGO. estimating population size with this kind of DNA data is
a reflection of hubris on the researchers part..when you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
no one can truly claim they know the human population of the earth
20,000 yrs ago much less 70,000 yrs ago br /> a guess backed up by mis- use of data is still a guess.

[wolfcreek]

Seen this one.

http://www.keyetv.com/content/entertainment/watercooler/story.aspx?content_id=28c97753-39c9-4840-9014-b752ec796b01

[blam]

Yes, I have.

'Krakatau's Child' erupts in Indonesia

[plain talk]

I'm sure the scientific community will be stunned and impressed with your conclusions. By the way, I've seen Lucy, and she doesn't look like a chimpanzee to me. Not much taller though.

And we thank you for your opinion as well.

[GOPJ]

A meteor hitting the Yucatan or the Yellowstone super volcano erupting puts millions of tons of particulate matter ...

Maybe the only folks to survive were the ones coincidentally sleeping in caves that night - and a piece of Australia.

[GOPJ]

A meteor hitting the Yucatan or the Yellowstone super volcano erupting puts millions of tons of particulate matter ...

Maybe the only folks to survive were the ones coincidentally sleeping in caves that night - and a piece of Australia.

Is this the same time period as petrified wood?

[Captain Rhino]

My understanding is that the population crashes because man was still primarily a hunter gatherer at this stage and because there wasn’t a lot of humanity to begin with. Hunter gatherers are more sensitive to climatic disruptions than farmers (who can deliberately raise/grow and store surplus food for lean seasons and years). As for surviving, those who were far away and under cover were going to have the best chance of surviving the beginning stages of the event. However, the subsequent severe climate disruption led to the death of the plant and animal food sources that the human population depended on and was probably the cause of most of the deaths.

Petrified wood arises from particular circumstances at the time of the plant’s death: large logs are quickly buried in an oxygen-deprived strata where the organic material subsequently fossilizes into stone (by water filtering through the burial and replacing organic materials with minerals). As far as I know, it is not limited to any particular geologic period of the past. As the link below relates, it has even been created in the lab.

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

[good1]

If you run the numbers, something interesting pops up

I have it from an infallible source that approximately 8-9000 years ago the population of the entire earth was reduced to 8 people as a result of a worldwide flood.

Run the numbers on the basis of 8 people 9000 years ago, and see what you come up with. Let me know, if you would.