The Time Humanity Almost Went Extinct

74,000 years ago, a supervolcano nearly wiped out our entire species. The genetic evidence for how close we came — and why it may have happened more than once. 00:00 How Close We Came 00:46 The Toba Eruption 02:53 How Scientists Know 03:32 Life After the Eruption 04:46 The Genetic Bottleneck 06:33 It May Have Happened Before 07:36 The Stakes 08:02 The Chromosome Clue 09:02 Mitochondrial Eve 09:55 The Counter-Argument 11:12 Could It Happen Again? 12:16 Closing Thoughts Sources: Ambrose (1998, Journal of Human Evolution), Petraglia et al. (2007, Science), Hu et al. (2023, Science) #history #ancienthistory #anthropology"