Insufficient Evidence for a Severe Bottleneck in Humans During the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition.

ABSTRACT: A recently proposed model suggests a severe bottleneck in the panmictic ancestral population of modern humans during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition. Here, we show this model provides a worse fit to the data than a panmictic model without the bottleneck.

SUBMITTER: Cousins T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11848514 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature