Any good book recommendations on the Out of Africa hypothesis and the great Mt. Toba explosion filter?
Pam, Yeah, the history of migration is pretty interesting. I don't know if there is a correlation between glaciers and fault lines.
Thanks for the Rutherford reference. I just ordered "A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived".
I see by that reference that you have studied the "Out of Africa" hypothesis based on mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA. I find that _really_ interesting. It shows the trek of humans out of East Africa ~200,000 years ago; and how the whole species nearly got wiped out by the explosion of Mt Toba 70,000 years ago. There may have been as few as 100 homo-sapiens who survived that event. That's one of the reasons for our current genetic homogeneity.
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>Wow that’s a great piece of history, uncle Bob. Thank you for putting it to perspective.
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>This was studied by an archeologist from the University of Missouri - and possibly the shoes it survived because of the caves dry and consistent environment.
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>https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/07/science/shoes-that-walked-the-earth-8000-years-ago.html
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>I find the history of human migration incredibly fascinating. I’ve read some of Adam Rutherford’s books on it but I def don’t know enough. Were glaciations highly related to fault lines back then ?
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