Insufficient Evidence for a Severe Bottleneck in Humans During the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition
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.
Authors
- Arun Durvasula (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0631-3238)
- Trevor Cousins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0428-9345)
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Molecular Biology and Evolution
- Published
- 2025-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf041
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 79.42