> > The entire population of the human race can be traced a single individual > who lived – not 3-4 billion years ago, when homo sapiens split from homo > erectus, but instead only ~70,000 years ago.
A hermaphrodite? On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > *From:* Jed Rothwell > > > > Ø Seriously, that is the claim. It does make it easy to confirm. If, in > fact, he did not urinate the whole time then obviously we are looking at an > extreme anomaly. People have gone for long periods without drinking -- > although I do not think anyone has ever gone for 2 weeks -- but no one can > survive without eliminating waste with urination. > > > > > > In the FWIW department, there is a series of YouTube videos on using urea > as an active electrolyte in Brown’s Gas type cells. > > > > This indicates that urea can be easily broken down at lower than the > published potential. Perhaps something like this has been incorporated into > the biochemistry of certain individuals. Not to mention recycling the water > from the kidneys, and being able to remove moisture from humid air via the > lungs. > > > > There could event have been an event in human history that “selected” for > this particular set of survival traits. Analysis of human DNA suggests that > there was natural “bottleneck” in human population. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck > > > > The entire population of the human race can be traced a single individual > who lived – not 3-4 billion years ago, when homo sapiens split from homo > erectus, but instead only ~70,000 years ago. There was likely to have been a > catastrophic event at that time which wiped out 99.99% of all humans. > > > > Perhaps the few survivors manage to live for extended periods on no food or > water and this evolutionary trait survives. In a quirk of statistics, > although all human can be traced back to this single “eve” in fact the > catastrophe may have left a few thousand human survivors, but “eve’s” direct > lineage succeed thereafter in becoming dominant … enough to statistically > erase all traces of the others. > > > > Wiki: “This is consistent with the Toba catastrophe theory which suggests > that a bottleneck of the human population occurred c. 70,000 years ago … the > human population was reduced to ~15,000 individuals when the Toba > supervolcano in Indonesia erupted and triggered a major environmental > change. The theory is based on geological evidences of sudden climate > change…” > > > > Jones >
