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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago: a new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals. (www.nature.com)

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[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No this is different, actually. The other event is the hypothesized genetic bottleneck triggered by the Toba supervolcano eruption only 74,000 years ago as opposed to 900,000 years ago for this newly proposed event.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Fascinating!