Are We Heading into a ‘Modern’ Bottleneck?
<p>I’ve been juggling numerous defining projects in these past weeks at work. At one point, I had three co-workers on my team, but now I find myself alone. As the demands piled up, my availability and progress became a bottleneck for the entire company — a limiting factor reducing our capacity to respond to the mounting demands.</p>
<p>About 930,000 years ago, our ancestors faced another kind of defining moment. This time, it wasn’t about travel plans or transformational expeditions in The Andes. This time, according to a study published in <a href="http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj9484" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Science</em></a>, the issue was at the root of our species: <strong>a genetic bottleneck that nearly wiped out our species, reducing the population to a mere 1,280 breeding individuals.</strong> This bottleneck between the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/Pleistocene-Epoch" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">early and middle Pleistocene</a> lasted for 117,000 years, leaving an indelible mark on our genetic heritage, shaping our resilience and ability to adapt.</p>
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