Comments on: Another scary tale http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/04/25/seems-implausible-and-so-it-just-may-be/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: gs http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/04/25/seems-implausible-and-so-it-just-may-be/#comment-304669 gs Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:29:17 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/04/25/seems-implausible-and-so-it-just-may-be/#comment-304669 Fascinating stuff. Wish I understood it better. Since this site doesn't give contact info, the following is provided in comment form. Wrt the probable role of climate: <a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/42/16422" rel="nofollow">here's</a> <i>Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Afric</i>, Ref. 48 in <i>The Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity</i>. Wrt the AP story: Stanford's press release about Feldman <i>et al</i>'s study of population size is <a href="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/may28/humans-528.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and the paper is <a href="http://www.ajhg.org/AJHG/fulltext/S0002-9297(07)60645-4?large_figure=true" rel="nofollow">here</a>; in particular, see the subsection <i>An Evolutionary Scenario for Ancient Expansion of Modern Humans</i>. Fascinating stuff. Wish I understood it better.

Since this site doesn’t give contact info, the following is provided in comment form.

Wrt the probable role of climate: here’s Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Afric, Ref. 48 in The Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity.

Wrt the AP story: Stanford’s press release about Feldman et al’s study of population size is here and the paper is here; in particular, see the subsection An Evolutionary Scenario for Ancient Expansion of Modern Humans.

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