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A new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals. A new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals.
A genetic analysis suggests our ancestral population fell as low as around 1300 individuals nearly a million years ago, but other experts aren't convinced