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theadvancedapes · 4060 days ago · link · · parent · post: How Can A White Supremacist Be 14 Percent Sub-Saharan African? : Code Switch : NPR
You're probably thinking of the Toba super eruption. I think we've discussed it before, but there is a hypothesis that the Lake Toba super volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago was the cause of a severe species-wide genetic bottleneck which geneticists think occurred somewhere between 60,000-80,000 years ago.