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Paleoanthropology

the proposal that the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago caused a volcanic winter and a human population bottleneck.

In paleoanthropology, Toba catastrophe hypothesis refers to the proposal that the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago caused a volcanic winter and a human population bottleneck. This meaning comes from Ambrose (1998) in Journal of Human Evolution.[1]

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References

Ambrose, S. H. (1998). Late Pleistocene human population bottlenecks, volcanic winter, and differentiation of modern humans. Journal of Human Evolution, 34(6), 623-651. https://doi.org/10.1006/jhev.1998.0219

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