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Surely the Neanderthals have been subject to the same selection pressure as homo sapiens throughout the aftermath of the Toba catastrophe nevertheless... No? A
by V-2 9y ago
Surely the Neanderthals have been subject to the same selection pressure as homo sapiens throughout the aftermath of the Toba catastrophe nevertheless... No?
Assuming the bottleneck theory is valid to begin with, this was a global ecological disaster - it's not like the Neanderthals sat this one out on another planet : )
- saalweachter 9y agoThe extinction of megafauna (eg, mammoths) didn't begin until tens of thousands of years later, so the effects at northern latitudes could not have been too severe.