Insufficient evidence for a severe bottleneck in humans during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition
Abstract
A recently proposed model suggests a strong bottleneck in the panmictic ancestral population of modern humans during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition. Here, we show this model provides a substantially worse fit to the data than a panmictic model without the bottleneck.
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