boem@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 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-square20fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down15cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.partyanthropology
arrow-up1162arrow-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.comboem@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square20fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.partyanthropology
minus-squareTRBoom@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoHere’s the wiki article. TLDR; They were a human species that lived on an island and were very small.
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 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