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Supplement to Monika Karmin’s Paper on Y Chromosome Bottleneck

Monika Karmin Paper on Y Chromosome Bottleneck

Monika Karmin Paper on Y Chromosome Bottleneck

Monika Karmin’s paper on the Y Chromosome Bottleneck suggests the occurrence of a bottleneck in the last 10,000 years (after 8000 BCE). We presume this to be the same Y Chromosome bottleneck as the one occurring around 5500 BCE.

Summary of Monika Karmin’s Paper

The Monika Karmin paper notes that in the last 10,000 years (10 kya), there has been a Y Chromosome Bottleneck that was experienced by modern humans after their out of Africa migration between 192 kya to 305 kya.

Karmin argues that this bottleneck was due to societal factors around the end of the last ice age (between 12kya to 10kya), but did not mention the exact reasons why it happened.

Here is a link to the research paper.

Plausible Explanation of the Last Y Chromosome Bottleneck

The last chromosome bottleneck that happened in 5500 BCE could not be explained by any other phenomenon except a war on a global scale. This global-scale war also needs to occur within a single generation (16 to 25 years), otherwise it would not have as great an impact as 90%, which we saw in the Y-chromosome bottleneck of 5500 BCE (7.5 kya or 7500 years ago).

The Mahabharata War is documented in the Sanatani Dharmic Texts and is the only plausible explanation for that event.

Otherwise, had it been a natural event (the only other explanation), it would have wiped out an equal number of the female population.

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