Another Bottleneck!
Apparently there has been more than one bottleneck along the way to our current milieu. In new research reported in Popular Science, apparently 99% of the human population was wiped out 800,000 years ago, preceding the decimation we reported in chapter 7 that resulted in a human population of about 600 individuals. Read the article here: https://www.popsci.com/science/human-population-pleistocene/, and examine the research here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj9484.
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