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Evolutionary Bottlenecks

By The Daily Dish
Jan 24 2010, 10:39 AM ET

The human race almost went extinct:

With 6.8 billion people alive today, it's hard to fathom that humans were ever imperiled. But 1.2 million years ago, only 18,500 early humans were breeding on the planet--evidence that there was a real risk of extinction for our early ancestors, according to a new study.


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