Were there really only 300 Eve’s?

Geneticists believe that around 140,000 years ago modern humans were almost wiped out and that only around 600 humans existed in Africa. Everyone today is descended from those 600 people.

Note: I find this ‘fact’ (if it is true) to be very incredible. If you guess that humans generations occurred around every 16 years then less than 9000 generations are responsible for breeding and populating the entire world. 9000 is a lot but when you consider how far the average generation would have moved around this seems amazing to me.

(Book – Lucy’s Legacy – Donald C. Johnson)

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