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this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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No this is different, actually. The other event is the hypothesized genetic bottleneck triggered by the Toba supervolcano eruption only 74,000 years ago as opposed to 900,000 years ago for this newly proposed event.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
Fascinating!