What’s more, the population of early human ancestors stayed this small for about 117,000 years. The analysis, published August 31 in the journal Science, is based on a new computer model ...

According to a model in a study published August 31 in the journal Science, the population of human ancestors crashed between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago. They estimate that there were only ...

Human ancestors nearly died out between around 930,000 to 813,000 years ago in an evolutionarily pivotal population bust, a contested new study concludes. This potential winnowing of human ...

Neanderthals may not have truly gone extinct but instead may have been absorbed into the modern human population. That's one of the implications of a new study, which finds modern human DNA may ...