Neanderthal Genetic Bottlenecks - a deep dive!

🧬 Uncover the mystery of Neanderthal genetic bottlenecks! Learn how these ancient humans faced significant population declines and what it reveals about their survival and evolution. Fascinating insights into our distant relatives! 🌍✨ #Neanderthals #GeneticBottleneck #HumanEvolution #AncientHumans #Paleoanthropology #Genetics #Archaeology #ScienceExplained #AncientDNA #EvolutionaryBiology

[alruiz]

What happened to cause the bottleneck?

[jbaccanalia]

10 thousand is a really narrow bottle neck. If we're 2% Neanderthal (fully admixed) and 1% of us are autistic. I have to wonder if autism was a pretty normal state for Neanderthals, like 50%? Or is it a stronger mutation?

[marcmyers]

Could you address the Genetic Bottleneck in West Virginia next, Please ? 🤔

[PavelDatsyuk-uiqv]

You have some crazy commenters lol. Thanks for the video

[susanne]

Shouldn't that apply to useful mutations, too? Sure, they don't "weed out" so easily in a large population and maybe even have an advantage - but wouldn't the advantage be even greater in a small population?
(For example: being able to digest mammalian milk as a grown up.)

[harrykirk]

How do you measure genetic variability.? Maybe the supposed bottleneck in population is 10 X smaller than the population prior to the bottleneck. However, the populaton that manages to get its DNA sequenced would seem to be easily a 1, 000 X smaller than the population prior to the bottleneck. It doesn't add up Where or how do you get enough DNA data to detect a loss of variability?. Can you really measure DNA variability.?

[johnbeumer]

Thank you for the brief discussion of genetic bottlenecks. I am afraid that I had turn away from the screen and listen because the dancing and popping captions were not only distracting, but had begun to give me a headache. If there is a way to turn them off I'd love to watch a few more of your videos.

[snowmiaow]

Where did the Neanderthal population originate? If they were all the same family they had to come from somewhere.