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boem@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

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.

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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.

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boem@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    I feel so lucky that I find the topic of our evolution and our cousins and so on as exciting as I do. The reason I feel lucky is because it’s a topic that is constantly turning out new discoveries and that makes life thrilling. Also, it feels like the rate of discovery has really exploded over the past decade or two. Remember the article about the “hobbits”? I just checked and that was 2004. Last December, Lee Berger revealed Homonaledi. Holy crap is this topic overflowing with cool news.

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      What hobbit article?

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        Here’s the wiki article.

        TLDR; They were a human species that lived on an island and were very small.

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        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

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