@contextfree @kupaye The human species has been bottlenecked a couple of times in its long history. About 930,000 years ago, the ancestors of humanity endured a 117,000-year-long population bottleneck, according to a 2023 genetic study. More recently (i.e. about 74,000 years ago), the world population may have been reduced to just a few thousand people by the Toba eruption.