Human ancestors came through survival crisis 900,000 years ago: study
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 14:39, September 01, 2023 SHANGHAI, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) — Scientists have found that early human ancestors survived a huge crisis that drove them to the brink of extinction about 900,000 years ago. Roughly 98.7 percent of our ancestral population was lost at the beginning of the “bottleneck” incident, with only approximately 1,280 breeding…