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New revelations about humans’ near extinction spark scepticism
人類曾瀕臨滅絕的新理論爲何遭到質疑?

The further back in time we go, the more slippery scientific deductions about the origins of Homo sapiens become
根據一項研究,人類祖先在大約90萬年前曾瀕臨滅絕,只有一千多個繁殖個體勉強存在於世。但這一發現也遭到質疑,可見探尋人類自身的物種故事所面臨的挑戰。

The writer is a science commentatorDespite being the dominant species on the planet, we Homo sapiens should count ourselves lucky to exist at all. Our ancestors were on the brink of extinction around 900,000 years ago, according to scientists, with little more than a thousand breeding individuals eking out a lonely existence for more than 100,000 years.

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