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Genomics analysis indicates that at least 800,000 years ago breeding individuals sank to as few as 1,300

A new study from East China Normal University found that the human race was almost wiped out as it approached a severe cooling period in the Earths history known as the Middle Pleistocene.

An ancestral human species faced a startling population bottleneck and teetered on the brink of extinction around 800,000 years ago, according to new research.

Humankind struggled to survive during a 100,000 year period during the early Pleistocene, according to researchers who used a computer model to discover a severe population bottleneck in our species’ ancient past.

Ancestral populations had rebounded by about 800,000 years ago, heralding the evolution of people today, a contested DNA analysis suggests.

A genetic analysis suggests our ancestral population fell as low as around 1300 individuals nearly a million years ago, but other experts aren't convinced

A study proposes that the population that gave rise to modern humans may have been reduced to roughly 1,300 reproducing individuals

The human population may have lingered at about 1,300 for more than 100,000 years, and that population bottleneck could have fueled the divergence between modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Fossil found in France is not quite modern human and not quite Neanderthal.

This 300,000-year-old skull found in China has traits of both humans and other more distantly-related hominids, implying a new branch on the human evolutionary tree could have lived there.