Recently published article in Live Science provides evidence that climatic change created an evolutionary bottleneck in human evolution approximately 70,000 years ago.
Scary stuff to know that we almost died out.
A few thousand people survived in disparate bands, giving rise to the entire human population.
Of great interest to me is the fact that the Khoi and Bushmen of Africa probably represent to closest living representative of what our ancestors looked like. They serve as the first branch off the modern human tree.
70,000 years is really close in evolutionary time.
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