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Tango01 | 26 Dec 2017 9:54 p.m. PST |
…Climate "While humans may have left Africa earlier, genetic research indicates that the main out-of-Africa migration probably occurred between 70,000 and 55,000 years ago. "It has long been proposed that the out-of-Africa migration was facilitated by wet periods that created green corridors to Eurasia — in other words, the climate pulled people out. We may have to revise this model to one where people were pushed out, due to unfavorable conditions," said study co-author Dr. Peter deMenocal, of Columbia University. Dr. deMenocal and colleagues traced the Horn of Africa's climate 200,000 years into the past by analyzing a core of ocean sediment taken in the western end of the Gulf of Aden, off present-day Somalia…"
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Cacique Caribe | 26 Dec 2017 10:53 p.m. PST |
Damn that global warming. They should have been more careful about their emissions and their carbon footprint. :) Maybe they're to blame for what happened on the rest of the planet. Dan TMP link TMP link
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ZULUPAUL | 27 Dec 2017 4:32 a.m. PST |
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Cacique Caribe | 27 Dec 2017 9:24 a.m. PST |
Lol. Yeah. They must have been a lot more potent back then. Dan |
Tango01 | 27 Dec 2017 11:05 a.m. PST |
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goragrad | 28 Dec 2017 11:25 a.m. PST |
Too many ruminants… But of course the climate never changed until the Anthropocene… |
Cacique Caribe | 31 Dec 2017 5:32 a.m. PST |
Yep. It was constant and stable, until we came around. Now it's up to us to make it constant and stable. :) Dan |
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