The research suggests that our ancestors’ population declined dramatically between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago. The population fell to just 1,280 individuals that reproduced. Their numbers remained so low for a whopping 117,000 years.
“About 98.7 percent of human ancestors had disappeared,” says geneticist Haipeng Li of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, who co-led the study.
2023-09-01 19:48:00
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