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Originally Posted by _Richard_
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?
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The denisovan finger bone?
The Toba theory makes sense - there were clearly dramatic events in the 70000 bce range.