Toba super eruption

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Massive volcanic eruption that caused a bottleneck in human populations

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Rachell PowellSean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, ... · 51:50 · 26 Jan
…The Toba super eruption, whatever, 75, 70,000 years ago, you have an effective human population down to, what, 2,000?…
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