A new study reveals that early human ancestors nearly went extinct between 930,000 and ... In order to investigate the genetic impact of this bottleneck, researchers turned to modern DNA samples.

In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

“About 98.7 percent of human ancestors were lost at the beginning of the bottleneck, thus threatening our ancestors with extinction,” the scientists wrote.

Almost 99% of all human ancestors may have been wiped out around 930,000 years ago, a new paper has claimed. The new research, published in the journal Science, used DNA from living people to suggest ...

An ancestral human species faced a startling population bottleneck and teetered on the brink of extinction around 800,000 years ago, according to new research.

Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, ... the ancestors of modern humans experienced a severe "bottleneck," losing about 98.7% of its breeding population.

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

It seems that every few weeks a new study expands our understanding of how Neandertal DNA affects modern human health and physiology. Researchers have found that some Neandertal DNA makes carriers ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.