{"id":189298,"date":"2024-05-13T17:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T22:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/human-ancestors-may-have-almost-died-out-after-ancient-population-crash"},"modified":"2024-05-13T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T22:22:26","slug":"human-ancestors-may-have-almost-died-out-after-ancient-population-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/human-ancestors-may-have-almost-died-out-after-ancient-population-crash","title":{"rendered":"Human ancestors may have almost died out after ancient population crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-ancestors-may-have-almost-died-out-after-ancient-population-crash3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost 99% of all human ancestors may have been wiped out around 930,000 years ago, a new paper has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The new research, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abq7487\" target=\"_blank\" aria-describedby=\"new-window\">published in the journal Science<\/a>, used DNA from living people to suggest that humans went through a bottleneck, an event where populations shrink drastically. The paper estimates that as few as 1,300 humans were left for a period of around 120,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>While the exact causes aren\u2019t certain, the near-extinction has been blamed on Africa\u2019s climate getting much colder and drier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 that humans went through a bottleneck, an event where populations shrink drastically. The paper estimates that as few as 1,300 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}