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Post by Baph on Feb 12, 2017 10:08:50 GMT -5
Everyone alive today descended from one woman in Africa 200,000 years ago. At this time, there were as few as 2,000 people on the entire planet. Drought forced them to spread out in search of resources and as a result the population exploded both in terms of numbers and diversity, and two hundred millennia later we're up to 6 billion + with ethnic diversity as striking as Norse, Samoan, and Latino.
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Post by PatSox on Feb 12, 2017 10:31:15 GMT -5
Look at my African American over here!!!.....Look at him!!!
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Post by jamesod on Feb 12, 2017 10:41:19 GMT -5
Everyone alive today descended from one woman in Africa 200,000 years ago. At this time, there were as few as 2,000 people on the entire planet. Drought forced them to spread out in search of resources and as a result the population exploded both in terms of numbers and diversity, and two millennia later we're up to 6 billion with ethnic diversity as striking as Norse, Samoan, and Latino. * two hundred millenia
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Post by Baph on Feb 12, 2017 10:44:04 GMT -5
Everyone alive today descended from one woman in Africa 200,000 years ago. At this time, there were as few as 2,000 people on the entire planet. Drought forced them to spread out in search of resources and as a result the population exploded both in terms of numbers and diversity, and two millennia later we're up to 6 billion with ethnic diversity as striking as Norse, Samoan, and Latino. * two hundred millenia Good catch. Edited.
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Post by slaytan on Feb 12, 2017 12:50:18 GMT -5
No wonder we're so fucked up. We're all products of incest
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Post by Baph on Feb 12, 2017 13:03:25 GMT -5
Google's if interested:
Mitochondrial Eve Human Population Bottle Necks Human Migration out of Africa
Some interesting tid-bits:
As recently as 40,000 years ago there were no Europeans, Asians, Aboriginals, or Native Americans . . . it was all the same group, Central Asians, and they split off respectively from there.
Humans came extremely close to extinction at least once, and likely as many as six different times, where ice ages, disease, droughts, or competition from other hominids drove our numbers down to just a few thousand world wide.
The theory that neanderthals disappeared due to interbreeding with homo-sapiens rather than going extinct is gaining popularity among genetic researchers.
Prior to homo-sapiens coming out of Africa, at LEAST 21 species of hominids existed, some for up to a million years, and then disappeared forever from the Earth. Fuck.
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Post by Baph on Feb 12, 2017 13:04:37 GMT -5
No wonder we're so fucked up. We're all products of incest Didn't you read about Adam and Eve? Noah's Ark? Just filthy.
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Post by PatSox on Feb 12, 2017 13:11:58 GMT -5
No wonder we're so fucked up. We're all products of incest Some more recently than others
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Post by matt on Feb 12, 2017 13:42:50 GMT -5
No wonder we're so fucked up. We're all products of incest Some more recently than others Hey, don't talk about jackel's dead son like that.
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Post by ocmmafan on Feb 12, 2017 15:37:40 GMT -5
Some more recently than others Hey, don't talk about jackel's dead son like that. Who would have become employed first? Jackel's imagined son or Jackel?
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Post by matt on Feb 12, 2017 19:33:48 GMT -5
Hey, don't talk about jackel's dead son like that. Who would have become employed first? Jackel's imagined son or Jackel? Oh man, tough call! They both seem to lack initiative...
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Post by Spencer on Feb 13, 2017 22:14:24 GMT -5
As recently as 40,000 years ago there were no Europeans, Asians, Aboriginals, or Native Americans . . . it was all the same group, Central Asians, and they split off respectively from there. Yeah, this is true, and very interesting. But it's also cool to think that when Homo Sapiens entered Europe for the first time, they weren't the only hominids. From what I recall, there were already Cro Magnons in the area, and there may have been some genetic contribution from them which contributed to our diversity. I don't have the exact stats on hand or anything, but I recall thinking it was cool when I learned about it.
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