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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago: a new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals. (www.nature.com)

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[-] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

What hobbit article?

[-] TRBoom@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Here's the wiki article.

TLDR; They were a human species that lived on an island and were very small.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Stuff like this:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/meet-homo-floresiensis-the-real-life-hobbits-of-indonesia

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/homo-floresiensis-hobbit.html

And here's the wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis

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