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?
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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?