Humans almost went extinct

[Kire]

Pretty fascinating stuff. Apparently we almost were wiped off the face of the Earth by drought 70,000 years ago, and it's written in our DNA.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/24/c....ap/index.html

[highwind]

Re: Humans almost went extinct

good thing we survived to create 2 girls, 1 cup!!!!

[Duel]

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WE HUMENS R SO SMURT!

[Kire]

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I posted this elsewhere, and someone replied "actually, it was 2000 people left, and it was a FLOOD, not at drought. Do your research and it's also in the Bible."

WOW.

[Loki]

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Where was this?

[Crimson Knight]

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good thing we survived to create 2 girls, 1 cup!!!!

Our greatest achievement to date.

I hear in 2010, we can look forward to 5 girls, 1 tub!

[jacquel]

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Think I first read this in Guns Germs and Steel.

Shameless plug to go read it, its amazing.

[American Hero]

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good thing we survived to create 2 girls, 1 cup!!!!

That's not even close to being cool. Worst video ever!

[JPS]

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I posted this elsewhere, and someone replied "actually, it was 2000 people left, and it was a FLOOD, not at drought. Do your research and it's also in the Bible."

WOW.

[Wavelength]

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Very, very interesting article, Kire... I have no idea how they found that the population was around 2,000 (as opposed to, say, 250,000 people with 2,000 common DNA ancestors), and I also have no idea how they could figure out it was a drought. The rest of it seems solid and was very cool to learn.

I posted this elsewhere, and someone replied "actually, it was 2000 people left, and it was a FLOOD, not at drought. Do your research and it's also in the Bible."

Something tells me they were joking, and I actually think it's pretty funny. Um...at least I really really HOPE they were joking. Can I see it in context?

[JPS]

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Some people are so brainwashed by the church you could tell them God said the world was flat and they'd believe it.

[gray]

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can't you science people not bring up god ONCE




JESUS!

[Wavelength]

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Some people are so brainwashed by the church you could tell them God said the world was flat and they'd believe it.

But... but... but...



...Has he been lying to me all this time?

[orius]

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Yeah, I've heard of this before.

I posted this elsewhere, and someone replied "actually, it was 2000 people left, and it was a FLOOD, not at drought. Do your research and it's also in the Bible."

WOW.

Evangelicals....

[Deeth Irteen]

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good thing we survived to create Youtube!!!!

Fixed

EDIT: I am very offended by JPS's crack about the church, because I'm a christian.