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When the Human Population Dropped to Near Zero: A Survival Story
Genetics suggests our ancestors once crashed to a tiny breeding population — perhaps just over a thousand individuals — and clung on for thousands of generations. The con
The Darkest Day in Human History: How We Survived the Toba Supereruption
Around 74,000 years ago, Sumatra's Mount Toba erupted in a global cataclysm that almost ended humanity. We explore the bottleneck and the coastal refuge.