I don’t think it was very estimated quite that low (seems like it was more like 15,000, and of course spread out over Africa for the most part), but I don’t hold the idea in much regard anyway. :’)
So now they are saying that there wasn’t a genetic bottleneck 75,000 years ago? I thought the genetic studies had proved that there was, and that this is built into all theories of human evolution. Does this mean all of this is out the window, and they have to come up with new theories?