A population bottleneck is an event that drastically reduces the size of a population. The bottleneck may be caused by various events, such as an environmental disaster, the hunting of a species ...

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.

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found that the critically endangered regent honeyeater faces hidden genetic ...

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

An analysis of the semicircular canals in Neanderthal ears reveals evidence of a 'bottleneck' event, leading to a reduction ...

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago.

Technically known as a "bottleneck," this genetic loss is frequently the consequence of a reduction in the number of individuals of a population. The ancient DNA data indicate that the decline in ...

One of the most glaring and obvious areas of this boomer bottleneck is housing. In 2019, boomers, only about 22% of the population, owned 42% of American homes, and they especially dominated ...

The image depicts a cliff painting, illustrating the population of human ancestor pull together to survive the unknown danger in the darkness during the ancient severe bottleneck. News ...

Neanderthals may have been headed toward their demise much earlier than experts previously thought, new research suggests. In the study, published online Feb. 20 in the journal Nature ...