“They make no difference to human evolution. Moot.”
Perhaps we’re quibbling over the definition of the word “moot.”
A dieback in the human population to 10,000, or 2,000, cannot possibly be irrelevant to human evolution.
A dieback in the human population to 10,000, or 2,000, cannot possibly be irrelevant to human evolution.
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Well yes it is - if humans evolve from what we are now, it will be from the genes we now have. Those genes which were lost in Toba don’t count - they are gone. Those lost genes cannot effect our future evolution.
For all we know if Toba had not happened we could all be morons now ... oh wait....