[Kozak]

One of those studies showed that most people are descended from a few people in a recent past (several thousand years ago now) and that there was some kind of disaster that killed most people on the planet. (I would guess it was an asteroid or something).

It was the eruption of

Toba Supervolcano

[Rick.Donaldson]

Ah, you’re RIGHT, I DO remember reading that it was Toba. Just forgot I guess. Actually, I was thinking it had something to do with an asteroid because of something I was watching on TV the other night, but the two incidents were millions of years apart and I must have muddled them up in my head somewhere.

(The thing I was watching a couple nights ago was talking about an extinction of 99% of the currently living species at the time and brought about the RISE of the dinosaurs, rather than the fall).