Prologue : A very bad day on Planet Earth -- 1. Mystery of the missing megavolcano. Serendipity ; Frozen in the ice ; Data in Davy Jones's locker ; Blowing the case wide open ; Mystery solved -- 2.
If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...
Around 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens faced a near-extinction event that drastically reshaped human history. Genetic studies indicate that global populations may have dropped to as few as 5,000 to ...