Nearly 70.000 years ago, Toba nearly wiped out the human race.
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Once in our history, the world-wide population of human beings skidded so sharply we were down to roughly a thousand reproductive adults. One study says we hit as low as 40. Forty? Come on, that can't be right. Well, the technical term is 40 "breeding pairs" (children not included). More likely there was a drastic dip and then 5,000 to 10,000 bedraggled Homo sapiens struggled together in pitiful little clumps hunting and gathering for thousands of years until, in the late Stone Age |
How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C.
Joe Mobley
― George Carlin
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