“For all we know if Toba had not happened we could all be morons now ... oh wait....”
Yuk, yuk.
Or if it had not happened we could all have Stephen Hawkings’ brains and Baywatch good looks.
My point is that it almost certainly had an effect.
You, for the first time, mention “future” evolution. Yes, pre-Toba genes are irrelevant to *future* evolution.
What I was wondering about was what the effects might have been of reducing the gene pool to 2,000 (or whatever the correct number is).
What I was wondering about was what the effects might have been of reducing the gene pool ...
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What was the effect on your personal evolution of that toy your parents didn’t buy when you were three years old?
Same question put another way. One cannot know the effects of something that no longer exists, if it still existed.
One of the possible effects of the gene pool reduction is one bilion people pray 5 times a day to a rock facing toward a certain direction ...