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Anthropology

at140

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1. Just 25,000 years and already extinct WOW

Reply to Warpy (Original post)

Tue Jul 13, 2021, 03:44 PM

Jul 2021

What never ceases to amaze me is how short human civilization is in context of earth's estimated age of 5 Billion years. I feel so lucky to be living now than just 200 years ago when pain killers and safe surgical procedures were not around.

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The Genome of a Human From an Unknown Population Has Been Recovered From Cave Dirt [View all] Warpy Jul 2021 OP

Just 25,000 years and already extinct WOW at140 Jul 2021 #1

The article said she was a modern human Warpy Jul 2021 #2

I hadn't thought of that Random Boomer Jul 2021 #3

Y-haplogroups (male lineages) were also lost then Warpy Jul 2021 #4