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2008-04-25 -Obits-

DNA Record: Humans almost died out 60K years ago

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Posted by 3dc 2008-04-25 12:35|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 yeah didn't it also about die during the plague too

Posted by sinse 2008-04-25 16:32|| 2008-04-25 16:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Unfortunately for my real estate values, no.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-04-25 16:48|| 2008-04-25 16:48|| Front Page Top

#3 It's nothing we couldn't do again. If we make it another 60,000 years, we'll be damned lucky.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-25 17:43|| 2008-04-25 17:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Also ~12000 BCE (est. 70,000 left over), and then ~1500 BCE (est. ~500,000 left over). ~700 BCE was another reduction, with about 50% survivors, so not as bad, although some peoples disappeared altogether. Those are worldwide figures.
Some recent research, based on statistical, genealogical and microbiological factors point to a period between 500-1200 BCE, with a paltry pool of ancestors.

Posted by twobyfour 2008-04-25 18:32|| 2008-04-25 18:32|| Front Page Top

#5 And then a PRE-MADONNA FAN came along, and like any good He-Ape began arguing wid his relatives and "the Babe" over dev a better Spearpoint and other weapons.

THERE GOES THE PROFESSOR AND THE KIDS AGAIN, RUNNING WID THE DINO HERDS IN "JURASSIC PARK"!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-25 18:53|| 2008-04-25 18:53|| Front Page Top

#6 The rest they say, is HISTOIRE' [Rush Limbaugh].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-25 18:56|| 2008-04-25 18:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Ice age? What stinknin' ice age?

Posted by no mo uro 2008-04-25 21:44|| 2008-04-25 21:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Two,

Yeah, but there is a massive difference between 2,000 and 70,000.

With the factors of the time, you are probably approaching the min number of humans to sustain ... hence why we are still here today; there were just enough.

Posted by bombay">bombay 2008-04-25 21:45|| 2008-04-25 21:45|| Front Page Top

#9 bombay, it seems like a diff. But pulling through with 70K is almost as much of a sheer luck as with 2K. It depends on circumstances--like stability of the environment in the days after and how fast people faned out in smaller groups to prevent pandemic conditions taking a toll.

One thing with the 2k @ 60,000 BCE...
The Australian Aborigines seem to have a continuous presence in Australia for at least 75,000 years. It seems that whatever happened to the rest of humanity, it passed them by. They never were present in great numbers, but enough to sustain themselves. In fact, they had something of a small "population explosion" roughly 50,000 BCE and some moved eastward in their sturdy boats, reaching South America. There they lived happily and spread as far as the northern glacial edge, only to be wiped out, gradually, by newly arriving Amerindians from about 10,000 BCE onward. A small group of caucasian stock folks that arrived earlier did not seem to be as ambitious and despite their larger physical frame, and a superior quality of stone industries, they left the original inhabitants largely alone. For the most part, they were concentrated in a Great Lakes area where copper nuggets (aye, even several ton copper boulders) were found readily on the ground. They later dug shallow mines, too. These red haired folks may have had a solid presence until the middle of second millennium BCE. Thence they appeared only in small numbers, found buried in some of the mounds with scores of Amerindians, until about 300 BCE, depending on dating that may be not exactly accurate.
The later scarce caucasoid burials are probably related to new intruders from east, first Phoenicians (they preferred Central America region) and later Vikings from about 600 CE to 1100 CE.

Posted by twobyfour 2008-04-25 22:56|| 2008-04-25 22:56|| Front Page Top

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