How Humans Nearly Went Extinct in 70,000 BC

Support our efforts to make videos about what we want: https://ift.tt/2MDSQiC It’s hard to believe that there are 7.8 billion people on the planet, and that number isn’t getting any smaller anytime soon. The United Nations estimates that by 2050, the world’s population will reach 9 billion. As other species go extinct at record rates, human beings show no signs of slowing down. So it might seem a little strange that there was a point in time where human beings were the ones who nearly vanished from the planet. Here are five facts about humanity’s near-extinction in 70,000 BC… →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Subscribe to our Facebook: https://ift.tt/1QRrRgJ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Other TopTenz Videos: 10 Inventions That Will Give You Hope for Humanity https://youtu.be/3TTvlbaPjzQ Top 10 FACTS About Surprising FACEBOOK https://youtu.be/ygabnp8Z6Rs Text version: https://ift.tt/2LRS9EA Coming up: 5. There May Have Been Only Forty Breeding Pairs 4. What Caused Our Bottleneck? 3. Our Near-Extinction 2. Our Eventual Expansion 1. We May Still Go Extinct… Just Not For Awhile Source/Further reading: https://youtu.be/c1zktdT2un4 https://ift.tt/2QoNTLo https://ift.tt/2GJnMid https://ift.tt/2GJnMid https://ift.tt/2QmCXOz https://ift.tt/2Ot6jxh https://ift.tt/2bwq05j https://ift.tt/2Ot6l8n https://ift.tt/2QrtPs6 https://ift.tt/2Ot6oB5 https://ift.tt/2Qkg0eE https://ift.tt/2OtVjzW https://ift.tt/2QrtRAe https://ift.tt/2OtVlI4 https://ift.tt/2QrtUMq https://ift.tt/2Ot6ybF https://ift.tt/2QqPmkj https://ift.tt/2OuOMF7 https://ift.tt/2QrtZ2G https://ift.tt/2OtVueA