studiot Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 A BBC report about the the Toba volcanic eruption that sheds new light on the human response during the winter that must have followed and its effect on human evolution. This appears to run contra to previous ( conventional) thinking http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43377960 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area54 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 In looking into the background of this report I came across an excellent paper, "Late Pleistocene human population bottlenecks, volcanic winter, and differentiation of modern humans". Although this paper is two decades old it gives a clear picture of the landscape of competing ideas into which the Toba eruption global winter and its impact on humanity, was inserted. While doing this speedy literature search I ran across another paper, from about five years ago, that also cast serious doubt on the Toba Eruption/Bottleneck connection. Life being what it is I can no longer locate it. If I find it during a further search I'll post a link here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studiot Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 Thanks for the cooperation. +1 I think science sites work best that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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