Human Beings: The Ultimate Comeback Story
Fri, Apr 25, 2008
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It’s entirely possible that the Earth could have saved herself what some of my more country brethren call “a whole passel of trouble” if she’d only finished the job…
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Man was on the brink of extinction once, and had to break into small bands in order to survive.
Prior to leaving
What drove man to this brink, prior to the species recovering, reuniting, and leaving the continent?
Perhaps the answer is climate change. As long suspected, it may have almost wiped out our species at the very beginning. What isn’t totally understood is why the apparently appropriate response for the early humans was to scatter in the face of peril.
This strategy held out for several thousand years, until roughly 40,000 years ago, when a reunited “pan-African” society began to expand out of the continent.
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April 27th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Interesting concept. One of our problems as a species is that we take too much for granted. Our place on this planet is not guaranteed.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:59 am
The concept that stands out for me is the use of “endangered species”. I don’t know how that is defined: in terms of ability to survive, or in terms of greatly reduced population?