What Is a Bottleneck Event? In the study of genetics, a bottleneck event refers to a sudden drop in a species population.

Ears are incredible things. They help us process sound and play a significant role in our balance. They may have also just ...

A dramatic population bottleneck did occur in our deep past—but some popular retellings over-simplify it. The newest genomic ...

DNA studies suggest that Neanderthals underwent a steep decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago—a forbidding omen of the species’ disappearance approximately 70,000 years later. Recent ...

Their results showed an extreme direct loss of diversity due to the bottleneck event and found the overall fitness in the modern population had been impacted. Researchers found three categories of ...