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Have Humans Come Close To Extinction?

Posted by timothy on from the closer-than-today-that-is dept.

waytoomuchcoffee writes "According to a new study, our virtually identical DNA indicates humans were close to extinction about 70,000 years ago. Another take on the same study tells how being lactose intolerant in adulthood was normal, and being able to digest lactose became a survival advantage after dairy farming was invented."

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  1. More Info & complete paper by MonkeyBoyo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is the abstract from the The American Society of Human Genetics article, and here is Stanford's press release on the story.

    And are the web pages of Marcus W. Feldman and Noah Rosenberg From Rosenberg's research page, here is access to a PDF of the journal article.

  2. BBC's writer clearly didn't do his homework by zaad · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's shocking how much better the San Francisco Chronicle article is to the BBC article.

    Clearly both writers had the same source to work with, but the sfgate article was much more researched, thought-out, and nicely tied together. Even when I had only read the BBC article, I was shocked at how poorly structured the article was.

    If you're only going to read one of the two, read the sfgate piece.