A recent study published in the journal Science found that humans were nearly wiped out in an "ancestral bottleneck" event 800,000 years ago. This event lasted nearly 120,000 years before the population recovered.

During this time period, it was estimated that there were only nearly 1300 breeding individuals during this time period.

https://www.popsci.com/science/human-population-pleistocene/

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