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There might have been many times more people living entirely isolated populations which would have left no descendants. Which is not unlikely given the extremel
by pqtyw 1y ago
There might have been many times more people living entirely isolated populations which would have left no descendants. Which is not unlikely given the extremely low population density.
- Tepix 1y agoPossibly. Otoh, we‘re social animals and cutting ties with the other groups would be disadvantageous.
- pqtyw 1y agoEven if all modern humans were confined to Africa if there were only 10s of thousands of them distributed across a significant part of the continent there is no way they would've had actual direct ties to each other.
- deepsun 1y agoMight have been. Or might have not. That's my question basically, why does parent comment claim there were many more humans?