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  • Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago

    Sep 1, 2023 12:00 pm by NatureIllinois in the News
    image of an unknown species of early human that nearly died out around 900,000 years ago, according to genetic analysis. It might have been both the ancestor of Homo heidelbergensis and a species ancestral to our own.Credit: S. Entressangle/E. Daynes/Science Photo Library

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    Nature (Aug. 30) A new DNA analysis technique found the population was reduced to just 1,280 and 'put the spotlight on the period 800,000 to one million years ago – for which there is much unknown,'  says U of I's Stanley Ambrose.

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