This video is fascinating on a number of levels:
https://youtu.be/IL_fiO00s6k?feature=shared
First, it puts "Climate Change" into perspective.
We're screaming towards another glacial period,
what is colloquially known as an "Ice Age," and
children are pissing themselves in fright over the
threat of it growing slightly warmer, though still
remaining well within the planet's norms.
But that's not why I'm sharing it now...
There's been recent claims about a human bottleneck,
and it's even been said that this is what spawned
the chromosome fusion, and the above video talks
about these claims.
Quite frankly, I'm not convinced that there was any
bottleneck what so ever...
We all know for a fact that there was *Way* more than
one human population.
Homo = Human.
This so called "Bottleneck," if it's related to the chromosome
fusion at all, is likely PRODUCED by it.
The chromosome fusion caused what looks like a
bottleneck. There was no bottleneck.
If this chromosome fusion was a barrier to interbreeding,
swapping genes, then we would have gone from a
gene pool with contributions from many populations to
just one.
There. Done.
Secondly, he explains that the dating of this event assumed
24 years per human population.
Does that sound right to you?
I would suspect that it would be shorter than that, maybe
20 years tops.
I just did the Google and 18th century Prussia had a life
expectancy of 24.7 years!
Yes of course people lived into their 80s but, they weren't
typical.
In ancient Rome, half of everyone born (at least) was
dead by 15. And most of the others never saw 40. The
Romans were cleaner than most people. They had baths,
they had toilets -- their streets didn't double as sewers --
and the mid 30s was the best most people could hope
for.
Again, lots of people made it into what we consider old
age. but not as a percentage. They weren't typical. They
were probably the best fed and had the easiest lives...
So this video debunks the stagnant climate myth of the
Greta Gospels, and inadvertently spells out some of the
issues with the "Bottleneck" claims.
Oo! Also...
There had to be a bottleneck after Toba. If Yellowstone
goes off tomorrow we're in an "Ice Age." It would
release the energy equivalent to 100,000 nuclear
weapons, and many sources say that's conservative.
Toba was roughly 2.5x Yellowstone...
So you can't look at humans RIGHT NOW and see what
humans looked like 1 million years ago.
These cataclysms are numerous in the planet's history,
and genetically they behave like successive filters,
each screening out genes, maybe even different genes.
It's simply NOT a test that tells you the answers they
claim to find.
And, besides, they're dating is off. There was a
bottleneck roughly 800,000 years ago. The earth was
hit by one or more asteroids... major impact event...
Ruined there day, that did.
And it hit right where the "Out of Asia" folks point to
as the origins of humanity.
Same for Toba.
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