Human Folly about “Toba”

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• 29130 Toba supervolcano effects (livescience.com):

  #Toba ash found in lake Malawi, but doesn’t support catastrophic genetic bottleneck

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• Science environment (bbc.com):

  #Toba catastrophe theory “dismissed”

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• Almost all living people outside Africa trace back single Migration over 50000 years (sciencemag.org):

  almost all non-Africans trace our descent to a single emigration from Africa 50 000 years ago, with near-immediate divergence; there’s a competing hypothesis by Mait Metspalu of an earlier dispersal, 120 000 years ago. But that would be before the #Toba catastrophe, 75 000 ± 900 years ago. #archaeology

  on 02016-09-24