[logi_cal869]

Good, hard science. Refreshing & fascinating.

But it's a shame that the event 900k years ago didn't clear all of the progressivism from the gene pool.

Our own 'bottleneck' is sure to come.

[hinckley buzzard]

1280? 98.7%? I am aware of ancient population bottlenecks, but I am skeptical of spurious precision.

[Vaduz]

About 98.7% of human ancestors were lost

Maybe they saw where it was heading and decided it was better to stop now.

The way things are going now they may have been right.

Civility is on the decline at a rapid rate.

[oldasrocks]

With 1200 survivors it did not clean the pool. Just added to more inbreeding in the populaiton.

[Paul R.]

Nick Ashton, an archaeologist at the British Museum in London, who wrote a related perspective2, says he was intrigued by the tiny size of the population. “This would imply that it occupied a very localized area with good social cohesion for it to survive,” he says. “Of greater surprise is the estimated length of time that this small group survived. If this is correct, then one imagines that it would require a stable environment with sufficient resources and few stresses to the system.”

Try to explain that to whoever wrote "The Book Of Genesis", whether written 600 BC, or by Moses himself, or I suspect some combination of those, and you have... The Garden of Eden.