#Humans faced a #closecall with #extinction nearly #1millionyearsago
The human population may have lingered at about 1,300 for more than 100,000 years
That population bottleneck could have fueled the divergence between #modernhumans, #Neanderthals and #Denisovans.
Previous research suggested that modern humans originated about 300,000 years ago in Africa.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/humans-faced-a-close-call-with-extinction-nearly-a-million-years-ago