Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Around 300,000 years ... human evolution, narrowing the population to approximately 1,280 breeding individuals for 117,000 years. This severe bottleneck, occurring between 930,000 and 813,000 ...

When the human race — Homo sapiens sapiens — migrated out of Africa to the Middle East 90,000 years ago, to Europe and Australia 40,000 ... biodiversity associated with our growing human population." ...

However, the researchers believe that some of the genes from the second population may have still been integral to brain development in modern humans. Later down the line of human genetic history, ...

Using a new method of modeling genetic data, researchers identified a split in human ... Population A and Population B. Once the groups split (remember, just a short 1.5 million years ago ...

A study published in August 2023 suggests that human ancestors experienced a dramatic population decline 900,000 to 800,000 years ago, losing 98.7% of their numbers. Following a meticulous Pre ...