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Old 02-24-2014, 12:42 PM  
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Originally Posted by _Richard_ View Post
the 'one woman' reference is of a bone fragment found in Russia

the genetic bottleneck you are mixing into that story is the Toba incident, that possibly lowered the population to 10k individuals.

but hey, you read 1 woman in africa is the mother of all of us, its gotta be true. eh?
The denisovan finger bone?

The Toba theory makes sense - there were clearly dramatic events in the 70000 bce range.
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