DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaf041 ISSN: 0737-4038

Insufficient evidence for a severe bottleneck in humans during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition

Trevor Cousins, Arun Durvasula

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.

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