NORTH 02: The Story of Our Species

Only 1,000 Humans Survived This

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Only 1,000 humans survived. 900,000 years ago, we nearly vanished. Our ancestors faced extinction, but somehow, we made it. This is the forgotten story hidden in your DNA.


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    • Sources
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    2. Rogers & Slatkin (2017). Wrangel Island mammoths. PLOS Genetics.
    3. Wangjie et al. (2023). Human bottleneck during Early-Mid Pleistocene. Science.
    4. Yehudai et al. (2021). Glacial cyclicity triggers. PNAS.
    5. Ambrose (1998). Volcanic winter & bottlenecks. J Hum Evol.
    6. Yost et al. (2018). Minimal Toba effect. J Hum Evol.
    7. Karmin et al. (2015). Y chromosome bottleneck. Genome Res.
    8. Lippold et al. (2014). mtDNA and Y-chromosome diversity. Investig Genet.
    9. Briggs et al. (2009). Neanderthal mtDNA. Science.
    10. Ríos et al. (2019). Inbreeding in Neanderthals. Sci Rep.
    11. Urciuoli et al. (2025). Neanderthal bottlenecks via semicircular canals. Nat Commun.

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      If you’re still reading, you’re one of the survivors. Like, subscribe, and join me next time as we uncover more hidden chapters of our deep human story. The next bottleneck… might be closer than we think.


      #HumanEvolution #Extinction #AncientHumans #Prehistory #DNA #Bottleneck #Survival



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