boem@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 2 years agoHuman ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago: a new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals.www.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down14
arrow-up1145arrow-down1external-linkHuman ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago: a new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals.www.nature.comboem@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareChetzemoka@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 years agoNo this is different, actually. The other event is the hypothesized genetic bottleneck triggered by the Toba supervolcano eruption only 74,000 years ago as opposed to 900,000 years ago for this newly proposed event. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
No this is different, actually. The other event is the hypothesized genetic bottleneck triggered by the Toba supervolcano eruption only 74,000 years ago as opposed to 900,000 years ago for this newly proposed event.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
Fascinating!