Drudge has highlighted (LINK) a very interesting article about the near extinction of humans. The theory suggests that humans almost went extinct 70 thousands years ago.

Tiny bands of early humans developed in isolation from each other for as much as half of our entire history as a species

This got me thinking about the theory of evolution and people who are always trying to keep the next species from going extinct.

If humans did nearly go extinct and lived in isolation from one another, evolution theory suggests that over many years, those groups would develop differently.  Because some adaptations are better than other, these groups would each evolve according to the environment that they ended up in. Eventually, the groups were blended back together (more or less), but with a variety of new traits. This has made our species diverse (a goal of every liberal) and better to survive the next challenge.

It makes me wonder if the near extinction is what caused humans to evolve to what we know today….how do we know we aren’t doing great damage by some of our endagered animal policies. For instance, if we round up all the wolves and relocate them in Yellowstone National Park,  we are subverting the process that made humans great. How do we know we are not messing up what would have been an extrodinary evolutionary process? People who believe in Evolution and poo-poo “Inteligent Design” should at least pause here to think about the unintended consequences.

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