Pretty interesting article on Boing Boing today.
Apparently, studies of human DNA samples from around the world show that we are all very very closely related genetically, and that the human race almost went extinct.
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Turns out, somewhere between 130,000 to 190,000 years ago, the human species was reduced to less than 1000 breeding individuals--just a few thousand people in total.
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This would have been probably the most important event in the "history" of the human race.
"History" is in quotes because it wasn't written down.