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

[karrot-kake]

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

[karrot-kake]

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.

[stevenjgarner → karrot-kake]

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