Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle [ ]

Posted by karrot-kake on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @12:45PM
from the science.org dept.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487

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Re:Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the... by karrot-kake on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @12:45PM (#37394413)

This paper is under strong discussion, but it argues that humanity had a period (between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago) where we had a severe population bottleneck with about 1280 breeding individuals.

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Re:Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the... by stevenjgarner on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:16PM (#37395652)

No wonder humans seem to do their best when things are the worst

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