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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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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Stuff like this:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/meet-homo-floresiensis-the-real-life-hobbits-of-indonesia

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-floresiensis-hobbit.html

And here's the wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis