An ‘ancestral bottleneck’ took out nearly 99 percent
of the human population 800,000 years ago. Only 1,280
breeding individuals may have existed at this dramatic
era of human history. Popular Science, August 2023
[www.popsci.com]

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.
Anna Ikarashi, Nature News, August 31, 2023
[www.nature.com]

Humanity’s Ancestors Nearly Died Out, Genetic Study Suggests
The population crashed following climate change about 930,000
years ago, scientists concluded. Other experts aren’t convinced
by the analysis. Carl Zimmer, New York Times, August 31, 2023
[www.nytimes.com]

The PDF of the preprint of the paper is at:

Hu, W., Hao, Z., Du, P., Di Vincenzo, F., Manzi, G., Pan,
Y.H. and Li, H., 2021. Genomic inference of a human
super bottleneck in Mid-Pleistocene transition. bioRxiv, pp.2021-05.
[www.biorxiv.org]

The paywalled paper is at:

Hu, W., Hao, Z., Du, P., Di Vincenzo, F., Manzi, G., Pan,
Y.H. and Li, H., 2021. Genomic inference of a human
super bottleneck in Mid-Pleistocene transition.
Science, 381(6661), pp. 979-984.
[www.science.org]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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