WI No Mount Toba super eruption

What if the super volcanic eruption that created Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia had not occurred 67 - 75,500 years ago? There is a theory that credits this super eruption with nearly driving humanity to extinction, reducing our numbers to below 10,000 at the most, to 1,000 breeding pairs at the lowest. Assuming this theory is correct, what would it mean for humanity if this eruption never occurred?

Would civilization emerge sooner with humanity's population much higher? How much more dramatic would racial diversity become? Could we even see minor physical divergences within humanity? If humanity begins it's migration into Europe and the Orient sooner, how much sooner might civilization arise? And how what effects would this have on a world still in the Wisconsin Ice Age?
 
Holy crap! Well there would certainly be less oil around now. Mass starvation. I'd rather not think of it.
 
If I remember correctly modern humans (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) only came about about 40,000 years ago, so well after this event. So a POD so far back in time might actually lead to a different evolution and thus there would be different humans or even competing human groups.
 
Toba instead releases such a massive cloud of butterflies that all attempts at prediction go out the window. :)
 
It was NEVER mentioned in any historical records in my country. Not even in the books that were supposedly written just years after the event. Considering that it knocked out 99% of the human population, isn't that cheesey?

Killing off 99% of the human pop. is something anyone can do, with the touch of a button marked 'Global Thermonuclear War', and Nature did it at least twice.
 
It was NEVER mentioned in any historical records in my country. Not even in the books that were supposedly written just years after the event. Considering that it knocked out 99% of the human population, isn't that cheesey?

Killing off 99% of the human pop. is something anyone can do, with the touch of a button marked 'Global Thermonuclear War', and Nature did it at least twice.

Well, this Toba eruption thing is still a very recent discovery. See this.
 
Toba certainly did give the earliest people out of Africa a massive setback. I've read that people had settled in Asia several thousand years before Toba, and were if not numerous at least established. If people didn't have to re-breed and re-settle the world from 74,000 years ago we may have been further along the path to early civilisation, but the butterflies are vast so there is no way to tell if the industrial revolution would have occured 5000 years ago.
 
Less illnesses being the direct result of inbred (haemophilia for example) that living in such small isolated groups had to entail and really did.
 
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