The Mount Toba Event: How a 70,000-Year-Old Supervolcano Shaped Humans
The article explains how the Mount Toba eruption about 70,000 years ago may have reduced the human population to around 1,000 breeding individuals, triggering a long bottleneck and global climate cooling, followed by later events like the Younger Dryas that further affected populations before the Holocene brought agriculture and the rise of modern society.