Mathew Thomas<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Humans</span></a> faced a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/closecall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>closecall</span></a> with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>extinction</span></a> nearly <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/1millionyearsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1millionyearsago</span></a><br />The human population may have lingered at about 1,300 for more than 100,000 years<br />That population bottleneck could have fueled the divergence between <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/modernhumans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>modernhumans</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Neanderthals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Neanderthals</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Denisovans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Denisovans</span></a>.<br />Previous research suggested that modern humans originated about 300,000 years ago in Africa.<br /><a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/humans-faced-a-close-call-with-extinction-nearly-a-million-years-ago" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/archaeology/hu</span><span class="invisible">mans-faced-a-close-call-with-extinction-nearly-a-million-years-ago</span></a></p>