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| Hottentots driven almost extinction due to Climate Change |
| 2008-04-24 |
Eastern Africa experienced a series of severe droughts between  135,000 and 90,000 years ago, and the researchers said this climatological shift may have contributed to the population changes, dividing into small, isolated groups which developed independently.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?" |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #13 Cowardly Lion "Whadda they Got, that I ain't got" Scarecrow. "Courage" Cowardly Lion "You can say that again", (Puzzled look) "What". Standing Army of OZ "The Wizard says" "Go Away" |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-04-24 22:10 |
| #12 "Courage" |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-04-24 22:01 |
| #11 What put the ape in apricot? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-04-24 21:48 |
| #10 Sorry, John QC - no Brittany. It's Hottentot, not "Hot to Trot." |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-24 19:25 |
| #9 It was definitely Courage making them hot. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-04-24 18:45 |
| #8 What made the Hottentot so hot? /semi-obscure reference, //put in the next line if you get it. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-04-24 18:26 |
| #7 Good thing they were not Vegetarians. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-24 17:07 |
| #6 The speculation is we are all descended from a small population that relied on freshwater fish for their main food source and they survived because there were still fish when a volcanic winter caused by the Toba eruption wiped out 9x% of land animals. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-04-24 16:40 |
| #5 There is also speculation that the Toba eruption supervolcano event was the cause of the population bottleneck. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-04-24 16:30 |
| #4 The headline at the original source should read "Humans nearly wiped out by last ice age!". |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-04-24 16:16 |
| #3 The article says extreme drought. Extreme drought would be associated with cooling, not warming. In warming, more water evaporates from the ocean and so there is more rain. With cooling, less water evaporates from the oceans. 70,000 years ago would have been about smack in the middle of the last glaciation. Global COOLING is more of an extinction threat than global warming is. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-04-24 16:14 |
| #2 Yet these same buffoons insist that climate change is caused by man. I'll believe that when I see them dig up a 70,000 year old Hummer. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2008-04-24 16:05 |
| #1 "Hottentots?" I thought this was yet another story about Brittany Spears. Ho Hum, back to past. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-04-24 16:00 |