Toba catastrophe theory
<p>Feb 14, 2014 05:28 PM</p>
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good article;</p>
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Stan Ambrose UIUC featured in the Hx Channel Video.</p>
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100X larger than Mt Tambora in Indonesia in 1816.</p>
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see Genet Bottleneck: 3,000 to 10,000 individuals
todays humans... survived from btwn 1,000 to 10,000 breeding pairs.</p>
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This catastrope also affected other large species.</p>
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The data seems not to be disputed (ice cores: sulfuric acid, 1000 year ice age;
what is disputed is whether Toba caused the genetic bottleneck or whether
our population was perpetually low or repeatedly lowered by other events,
perhaps including Toba.</p>
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