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Originally posted by canderson180
Anyone know of any major events or ancient references from 200,000 to 150,000 years ago?
Human Species Almost Extinct 70,000 Years Ago - A Galaxy Insight
"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."
The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis by researchers at Stanford University. The estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age. Previous studies using mitochondrial DNA - which is passed down through mothers - have traced modern humans to a single "mitochondrial Eve," who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago.
...The extremely interesting and thought provoking premise of this article was that at some point during a period of approximately 123,000 to 195,000 years ago, the total estimated population size of more than 10,000 breeding individuals crashed to at most just a few hundred ... at which point Homo Sapiens became an endangered species and teetered on the brink of extinction.
...Additional support for this population crash is also evident in the fact that humans today exhibit very low genetic diversity when compared against many other species having much smaller population sizes and geographic ranges. This phenomenon is best explained by the occurrence of a population crash amongst the emerging Homo Sapiens.
When Humans Almost Became Extinct !
Originally posted by ACTS 2:38, paraphrased and grammar corrected by m0r1arty
'Likely' is not science, nor is 'believed'.
Originally posted by canderson180
I'm surprised this is just seeing the light of day. A quick wiki source would show that scientists were looking at this theory as far back as 1988 (from what I found).
Originally posted by ACTS 2:38
"""A maternal ancestor to all living humans called mitochondrial Eve likely lived about 200,000 years ago, at roughly the same time anatomically modern humans are believed to have emerged,A maternal ancestor to all living humans called mitochondrial Eve likely lived about 200,000 years ago, at roughly the same time anatomically modern humans are believed to have emerged,"""
It appears that this so called scientific discovery is actually a religious statement.
Likely is not science nor is are believed.
Science does not work on likely. It is likely that sodium and chloride will make salt it is believed.....
Facts testable and repeatable are science; should have, could have, might have, we believe, likely, ECT ECT are religious statement.
Originally posted by grey580
A pretty crazy notion. Makes me wonder what she looked like. And in that time we've mutated enough to be the different races.