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This bottleneck occurred before the split between "us" and neanderthals - so if this small population didn't survive there wouldn't be not only modern humans, b
by borissk 3y ago
This bottleneck occurred before the split between "us" and neanderthals - so if this small population didn't survive there wouldn't be not only modern humans, but neanderthals as well.
- daveguy 3y agoAhh, yes. Good point. Neanderthals wasn't a good example. The ones that didn't survive from that point would have been called something else.