While we’ve lasted hundreds of thousands of years, there was a good chance that 800,000 years ago, we could have become extinct.
While we’ve lasted hundreds of thousands of years, there was a good chance that 800,000 years ago, humans could have become extinct.
“The Earth was covered in ice sheets and glaciers and there was a massive Ice Age around that time, reckon,” he said.“One reason for this drop in population size that the animals that we were living on were dying off and less food.Prof O'Neill said there is speculation that the survivors had discovered fire and harnessed it for warmth to survive the changing climate.
The population drop continued for roughly 200,000 years before it began to increase once again, according to Prof O’Neill.
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