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Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests.

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disraeli3 months, 4 weeks ago

Fascinating story. Shows how fragile our collective existence is (was?). Also the link to the National Geographic's genographic website is well worth a look.
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crespi3 months, 4 weeks ago

We'll get it right THIS time...
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  Locky123 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  What makes you so sure we have control over what happens to our planet?
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    crespi3 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    Because I'm a HUMAN, Buddy.
    And WE kick nature's A*S (to death...)
    
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CRYMTYPHON3 months, 4 weeks ago

I wonder if it happened so slowly, they did not realize it?
Things just getting incrementaly harder, year after year after year, till the village up river was gone and the tribe across the hill had disapeared.
I wonder if they sat around the fire and debated whether things were getting worse or better?
I suspect so.
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  Coatl3 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  Very good question, perhaps that was the moment when religion was born.
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jeremy773 months, 4 weeks ago

It's also fascinating to think what it would have been like if humans never evolved.
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Locky123 months, 4 weeks ago

Or maybe it was just a supervolcano like Yellowstone Park. One mega eruption and that's it.
There wasn't a blessed thing anybody could do about it and still couldn't do about if it happened today.

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  CRYMTYPHON3 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  I would write an extemely angry letter to the editor.
  I am not sure which editor.
  Maybe, National Geographic.
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not2needy3 months, 4 weeks ago

FTA:
Previous studies using mitochondrial DNA â;; which is passed down through mothers â;; have traced modern humans to a single "mitochondrial Eve," who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago.
I ordered the movie, Eve out of Africa, from discovery. Excellent documentary.
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