April 25, 2008
you’re lucky to be here, you’re lucky to be alive
A new study of mitochondrial DNA indicates humans were almost rendered extinct 70,000 years ago by severe drought. A separate study indicates that the human population may have dwindled to as few as 2,000 people before the numbers expanded again in the Stone Age. For comparison, 6.6 billion of us live here now.
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What a delightful novel a fine writer could make with this material. (Of course it wouldn’t get published unless it was a crass novel. . . .)