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Late Pleistocene human population bottlenecks, volcanic winter, and differentiation of modern humans

Journal of Human Evolution, ISSN: 0047-2484, Vol: 34, Issue: 6, Page: 623-651
1998
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    Usage
  • 557
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  • 66
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  • Citations
    481
  • Captures
    557
  • Mentions
    66
    • References
      32
      • Wikipedia
        32
    • News Mentions
      30
      • News
        30
    • Blog Mentions
      4
      • Blog
        4
  • Social Media
    15
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      15
      • Facebook
        15

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The “Weak Garden of Eden” model for the origin and dispersal of modern humans (Harpending et al., 1993) posits that modern humans spread into separate regions from a restricted source, around 100 ka (thousand years ago), then passed through population bottlenecks. Around 50 ka, dramatic growth occurred within dispersed populations that were genetically isolated from each other. Population growth began earliest in Africa and later in Eurasia and is hypothesized to have been caused by the invention and spread of a more efficient Later Stone Age/Upper Paleolithic technology, which developed in equatorial Africa.

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