[Centurion2000]

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."

This guy is a CERTIFIED idiot. Anyone with half a brain in science knows that a supervolcano erupted right around that time (Tomu) which completely screwed weather patterns for years after it's eruption. It wasn't climate, it was weather caused by a natural event that nearly wiped us out.

[El Gato]

It wasn't climate, it was weather caused by a natural event that nearly wiped us out

It may have been weather, the article linked above indicates that the "Volcanic Winter" lasted 6 years, but the Ice Age it kicked off lasted 1,000 years. That's Climate Change with a vengence. Just not man made.

Unless it was those Sumatran religious nuts throwing the virgins into the volcano. :)

[Coyoteman]

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."

This guy is a CERTIFIED idiot. Anyone with half a brain in science knows...

Meave Leakey is the wife of Richard Leakey.