A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

An ancestral human species faced a startling population bottleneck and teetered on the brink of extinction around 800,000 years ago, according to new research.

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

Almost 99% of all human ancestors may have been wiped out around 930,000 years ago, a new paper has claimed. The new research, published in the journal Science, used DNA from living people to suggest ...

An international collaboration led by Chinese scientists has found for the first time that population collapse almost wiped out early human ancestors over 900,000 years ago, with the number of ...

Before the bottleneck, the scientists concluded, the population of our ancestors included about 98,000 breeding individuals. It then shrank to fewer than 1,280 and stayed that small for 117,000 years.

Between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, the population of human ancestors crashed, according to a new genomic model by Wangjie Hu and colleagues. Skip to content Menu ...

How a new method of inferring ancient population size revealed a severe bottleneck in the human population which almost wiped out the chance for humanity as we know it today. An unexplained gap in ...

This represents a severe population bottleneck. This was seen genetically through increased runs of homozygosity within the genome, caused when both parents contribute nearly identical chromosomes ...

What I got from the article is that a small population of 10 individuals may recover, and purge the very harmful mutations, but that their offspring will be stuck with a lot of mildly harmful ...