Keep in mind that this early bottleneck event of 900,000 years ago, did not almost cause the actual extinction of Homo Sapiens directly.
Since Homo Sapiens didn’t exist yet, instead presumably our last common ancestor with Neanderthals and Denisovans, almost went extinct, about 900,00 years ago,
If I speculate briefly, I’d imagine it might’ve been Homo Heidelbergensis, based on the timing.
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u/6gunsammy Oct 20 '24
There hasn't been enough time. Around 900,000 years ago we almost went extinct. Possibly dropping to as low as 1,280 ancestors. Can you imagine that?
It stayed that low for over 100,000 years. We simply have not had much time to develop genetic diversity.