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Sincerly_ t1_isi5c28 wrote

Reply to comment by Tractorcito22 in When it's said 99.9% of human DNA is the same in all humans, is this referring to only coding DNA or both coding and non-coding DNA combined? by PeanutSalsa

Yes, we are compared to other animals, and the reason we think this is because tens of thousands of years ago there was a super volcano eruption that made our population around 10,000 or less. So we are not as genetically diverse as other animals are

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Mylaur t1_isioah7 wrote

What?... So we would have been even more genetically diverse huh.

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pihwlook t1_isjmc6t wrote

Why did this event not also constrict other species?

Because they had time to diverge before it, and our divergence came after it?

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Sincerly_ t1_isk48bd wrote

It did affect certain animals of course, but we were ran to near extinction. But most of the animals we see today don’t seem like there genetic diversity was affected that much. And yeah, most likely they diverged way before that, even before the super volcano we have had times where we have had extremely low population.

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