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bryanlarsen • today at 12:56 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Was it the entire population or just the males? At this time there was a worldwide phenomenon called the Neolithic Y chromosome bottleneck in which 95% of Y chromosomes disappeared.


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dyauspitr • today at 10:20 PM

The fact that we see this disparity between the sexes means that this wasn’t a disease based takeover like it was in the Americas.

nextaccountic • today at 10:03 PM

Could this mean just that 95% failed to reproduce?

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