The super-eruption of Toba, did it cause a human bottleneck?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 227-230

  Gathorne Hardy, F J ^a   Harcourt Smith, W E H ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

INDONESIA; LAKE TOBA; SUMATRA;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242410892     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(03)00105-2     Document Type: Article

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