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Journey of Mankind

March 13th, 02008 by Alexander Rose - Twitter: @zander

Nice animated time line of human migration sent to me by Paul Saffo (via Jim Warren). The coolest thing I learned was the very exciting day about 80,000 years ago when a massive volcanic eruption caused a 6 year darkening of the skies!

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charlie

Cool site.

That volcano eruption has had me fascinated for a long time. These were folks like you and me living a long winter. What was it like? How might this have been recorded or engraved in our cultural or genetic memory?

And so so few individuals alive. This was an amazing bottleneck. We owe everything to the amazing survival skills of these people.

Thinking of the Long Zoom, we can see broad swaths of time and climate and geographical changes. But you sometimes need to get down on the human scale of things and be amazed as to the odds and survival through all these changes.