Some anthropologists and archaeologists subscribe to the Toba catastrophe theory , which posits that the supereruption of Lake Toba on Sumatran island in Indonesia some 70,000 years ago caused global consequences , killing the majority of humans and creating a population bottleneck that affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today . The genetic and archaeological evidence for this remains in question however
Toba catastrophe theory
Toba catastrophe theory
Human evolution