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Interesting item here: the human population may have undergone significant expansion far longer ago than we’ve thought up till now — not ten millennia ago, but sixty to eighty.

How, I wonder, does this fit in with the “Toba bottleneck” theory, in which the entire breeding population of humans is thought to have crashed to a few thousand individuals, about seventy thousand years ago?

One Comment

  1. JK says

    In the interests of my never-ending battle to keep ya’ll residing up there in the NE whole and healthy:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/testicle-eating-pacu-fish-found-193030306.html

    I would wish to express my hopes ya’ll would spend a bit of time spreading nets and keep your critters out of the Mississippi?

    Posted September 25, 2013 at 4:41 pm | Permalink

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