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

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	Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle [ ] (science.org)
	2 points by karrot-kake 1018 days ago

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karrot-kake 1018 days ago

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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stevenjgarner 1018 days ago

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

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