THE PALEOLITHIC HUMAN BOTTLENECK –“Results showed that human ancestors went thr

THE PALEOLITHIC HUMAN BOTTLENECK
–“Results showed that human ancestors went through a severe population bottleneck with about 1280 breeding individuals between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago. The bottleneck lasted for about 117,000 years and brought human ancestors close to extinction. This bottleneck is congruent with a substantial chronological gap in the available African and Eurasian fossil record.”–

This number keeps getting smaller, and given that around 1500 is the genetic minimum and optimum for a balance of innovation(mutation) and error correction, this number would make sense.

With 150 associates and 1500 population appears to produce maximum evolutionary computation.