[PW] world populations and the real Eve

[Charles Early]

It has been suggested that the eruption of Mount Toba in Sumatra around 
70,000 years ago may have reduced the world human population to only about 
15,000 people (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/166869.stm, see 
also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory).  I have dim 
memories of seeing a documentary several years ago that mentioned this 
theory, and I have the impression that the program may have been produced 
in Austrailia.

At 10:41 PM 3/13/2007, you wrote:
>On 3/13/07, Rboconoresq at aol.com <Rboconoresq at aol.com> wrote:
> > I
> >
> >        The whole story of world population and it's changes (sometimes
> > apparently massive) is a fascinating subject.  I saw a program on 
> educational TV a
> > few years ago, which I can't remember that much about, which discussed 
> (I do
> > recall the term) a "key hole" through which a remnant of the world 
> population,
> > something like 14 million humans, passed a hundred thousand years ago
> > (guesswork--I don't remember the time span), the rest having 
> perished.  It was in the
> > Middle East--I suppose before the time that modern man (Cro Magnon) 
> could cross
> > into Europe.  I've researched the matter every once in a while but have 
> never
> > turned up anything like that story.  Does it ring any bells with anyone?
>
>The only reference I could find to an anthropological "keyhole" was
>this (see reference to Tim White (UCB) lecture):
><http://homepage.mac.com/gregdaigle/blogwavestudio/index.html>
>
>The television show sounds a bit like THE REAL EVE, a Discovery
>Channel show, also shown in the UK under a different name, which
>included coverage of work by Stephen Oppenheimer.
>
>The Bradshaw Foundation has some fairly cool stuff from Oppenheimer at
><http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/reading.html>.
>Check out the interactive genetic map.
>
>--
>Sal
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