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The explosive discovery of a tiny, enigmatic hominin in an Indonesian cave in 2003 captivated the world. Now, 20 years later, scientists are still struggling to understand the hobbit’s place in the human family tree.
The evolutionary bottleneck 900,000 years ago might have been caused by an extreme climate event, reducing the population to just 1,280 individuals.
Between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, the population of human ancestors crashed, according to a new genomic model by Wangjie Hu and colleagues.
Scientists have observed a hole in the fossil record of early humans in Africa dating from about 900,000 to 600,000 years ago. That might be because, as a new study contends,...
Research suggests early humans were nearly wiped off the face of the Earth 900,000 years ago when the planet approached a severe cooling period which last more than 100,000 years