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New revelations about humans’ near extinction spark scepticism
人类曾濒临灭绝的新理论为何遭到质疑?

The further back in time we go, the more slippery scientific deductions about the origins of Homo sapiens become
根据一项研究,人类祖先在大约90万年前曾濒临灭绝,只有一千多个繁殖个体勉强存在于世。但这一发现也遭到质疑,可见探寻人类自身的物种故事所面临的挑战。

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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