"Surviving the 74,000-Year-Old Supervolcano Eruption"

Microscopic glass shards from the Toba supervolcano eruption in Ethiopia suggest that early modern humans survived the event by adapting to extreme arid conditions, shifting their diet to include more fish. This challenges the idea that humans couldn't survive in such climates and offers an alternate theory for human dispersal out of Africa. The study also provides evidence that humans were flexible in their adaptations and could overcome environmental challenges, contradicting the popular belief that the Toba eruption nearly drove humans to extinction.