The paper places the bottleneck "between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago" and has it lasting "for about 117,000 years" [1]. This overlaps with the bottlene

The paper places the bottleneck "between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago" and has it lasting "for about 117,000 years" [1]. This overlaps with the bottleneck found back in 2017 (also by genetic analysis) in early Neanderthal and Denisovan populations [2][3]: Approximately 750,000 years ago, according to Rogers, the forerunners of Neanderthals and Denisovans left the ancestors of modern humans behind in Africa to make their way across Eurasia’s expansive territory. Once on their own, something nearly wiped them out entirely; the genetic data shows the population passed through a severe bottleneck, never observed in previous studies. [1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487 [2] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1706426114 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1706426114 [3] https://www.quantamagazine.org/genetics-spills-secrets-from-neanderthals-lost-history-20170918/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/genetics-spills-secrets-from-... Edit: typos, the bane of my existence.