@boem to science • 1 year agoHuman 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.www.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square19arrow-up1166arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1161arrow-down1external-linkHuman 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.www.nature.com@boem to science • 1 year agomessage-square19cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareTRBoomlinkfedilink4•1 year agoHere’s the wiki article. TLDR; They were a human species that lived on an island and were very small.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoStuff 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
What hobbit article?
Here’s the wiki article.
TLDR; They were a human species that lived on an island and were very small.
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