https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
The problem though is that for a volcano, Toba was highly selective. We are asked to accept that it blasted humanity all the way from SE Asia back to a small group in Africa. However, Neanderthal does not seem to have noticed the climatic changes and other species were not wiped out.
Quote:The Toba supereruption was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred some time between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago at the site of present-day Lake Toba (Sumatra, Indonesia). It is one of the Earth's largest known eruptions. The Toba catastrophe hypothesis holds that this event caused a global volcanic winter of 6–10 years and possibly a 1,000-year-long cooling episode.
The Toba event is the most closely studied super-eruption.[2][3][4] In 1993, science journalist Ann Gibbons suggested a link between the eruption and a population bottleneck in human evolution, and Michael R. Rampino of New York University and Stephen Self of the University of Hawaii at Manoa gave support to the idea. In 1998, the bottleneck theory was further developed by Stanley H. Ambrose of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The problem though is that for a volcano, Toba was highly selective. We are asked to accept that it blasted humanity all the way from SE Asia back to a small group in Africa. However, Neanderthal does not seem to have noticed the climatic changes and other species were not wiped out.
