Study creates 'most comprehensive' map of human population bottlenecks
Founder events, or population bottlenecks, were found to be common throughout human history, according to a campus study published Thursday.
Source: dailycal.org
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Founder events, or population bottlenecks, were found to be common throughout human history, according to a campus study published Thursday.
Human populations have waxed and waned over the millennia, with some cultures exploding and migrating to new areas or new continents, others dropping to such low numbers that their genetic diversity plummeted.