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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?
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