Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
www.nature.com
A new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals.
  • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The start of an evolutionary trait generally comes from one individual that found it beneficial for procreation in some way, so depending on what you’re looking at we can be narrowed down to one.

    • irdc@derp.fooEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s kind of simplistic: some traits are initially neutral and only show their usefulness later on.