They found a bottleneck in many species 200000ya, I guess at some point they analyzed the most recent common ancestor in the male and female form, [1] [2] and it was completely misunderstood.
Also, remember the results of each study is provisional until a few ears later when enough independent groups have review and replicated the results. Peer review is only the first filter.
They found a bottleneck in many species 200000ya, I guess at some point they analyzed the most recent common ancestor in the male and female form, [1] [2] and it was completely misunderstood.
Some sane coverage of the paper: https://biologos.org/blogs/archive/did-90-of-animal-species-... https://phys.org/news/2018-05-special-humanity-tiny-dna-diff...
Also, remember the results of each study is provisional until a few ears later when enough independent groups have review and replicated the results. Peer review is only the first filter.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve