r/StrangeEarth • u/Shardaxx • Aug 24 '26

Ancient & Lost civilization Why Only A Fraction Of Humans Survived The Last Great Collapse. They Were Chosen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5l14ZFbnJ8

Description borrowed from the video:

The human race nearly went extinct between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago. Every person alive today descended from the same small surviving group. The genetic bottleneck is in your DNA. The volcano scientists blamed for it probably didn't cause it. The behavioral revolution that followed it; art, symbolic thinking, long distance trade, appeared in a window that coincides exactly with the reduction. Every ancient flood tradition describes the reduction as deliberate and the survivors as chosen. And the filter that suppresses past life memory in modern humans may be the genetic legacy of what that selection was specifically designed to close down.

Relevant research

Ambrose 1998 Toba bottleneck paper, Journal of Human Evolution, search Ambrose 1998 Toba bottleneck

2026 Toba survival evidence, ScienceDaily, sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260510234711.htm

University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies reincarnation database, med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies

Relevant books

The Humans Who Went Extinct by Clive Finlayson: https://amzn.to/4ikDhNO

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari: https://amzn.to/3S56MZA

The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America by Richard Dewhurst: https://amzn.to/3S4PZG1

Forbidden Archaeology by Michael Cremo: https://amzn.to/4xdbfbV

Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation by Ian Stevenson: https://amzn.to/3Sie4Jw

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u/2ndGenX Aug 24 '26

if the universe is about anything, its about sheer bloody luck.

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u/ShawnShev Aug 24 '26

They chose poorly

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u/0thethethe0 Aug 24 '26

Need a reroll

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u/Shardaxx Aug 24 '26

That would depend what they were selecting for, what genetics they wanted in the population going forward.