2008Apr24: 70,000 years ago a drought reduced the human population to small isolated groups in Africa, perhaps as low as 2,000, according to researchers led by Doron Behar of Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel and Saharon Rosset of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Tel Aviv University. The report was published in the American Journal of Human Genetics (USA Today, 2008).
Reference: USA Today. 2008. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-04-24-human-extinction_N.htm
Image Description: Arch of Fozzigiaren in Tadrart Acacus. This area is one of the most arid of the Sahara, located in southwestern Libya. Photo taken by Luca Galuzzi, 2007Apr7. Image Location: Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Libya_5101_Fozzigiaren_Arch_Tadrart_Acacus_Luca_Galuzzi_2007.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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