[Ahban]

I don't know either, except that maybe Toba, bad as it was, did not bring any primate species alive today close to extinction. Human genes are so close simply because man himself is very recent- after Toba. Of course, if the dating of the fossil in your post holds up, mankind would be older.

Still, that skull looks completely modern - I suspect it is far more recent than the preliminary dating, based on sediments and not the skull itself, suggests. BTW Mungo Man may not be from so far back after all. VadeRetro, to his credit since it undermined his point, found a good link casting grave doubts on the 60K date for Mungo Man in favor of a much more recent date.

[blam]

"I don't know either, except that maybe Toba, bad as it was, did not bring any primate species alive today close to extinction. "

Everyone is fussing about Mungo Man.

I caught parts of a documentary about an archaeologist who claims to have found 'human activity' (In the Indonesian area) just above the Toba layer. She speculated that there were human survivors in the immediate Toba area. We need more data.