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So you're saying that the previous eruption was sufficiently catastrophic that it reset evolutionary progress planet-wide?
There are a lot of scientists who would be very interested to hear this. You should write to them with your findings.
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I don't think he said that at all. He said the last eruption was 670,000 years ago. How much extinction occurred? How much evolution could occur in less than 1 million years?
We obviously didn't go all the way back to evolving from bacteria and protozoa.
670,000 years ago was in the time of Homo Erectus. Homo Erectus wasn't made extinct by the last eruption. There was enough time to evolve from Homo Erectus but certainly not enough time to evolve from Homo Bentus or Homo Crawlus.
I think the comment was that while the last eruption was bad, many species survived.