The Extinction Event That NEARLY ENDED Humanity 900,000 Years Ago | History For Sleep

What happened 900,000 years ago that wiped out 98.7% of our ancestors? Discover the terrifying extinction event that reduced humanity to a fragile population of just 1,280 individuals.
Welcome to History For Sleep. Tonight, we journey back to the Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition, a period of brutal global climate change that transformed the African continent and pushed early humans to the absolute brink of erasure. For 117,000 years, a tiny population struggled against a harsh, drying world, resulting in a severe genetic bottleneck that forever changed human evolution—including the mysterious fusion of Chromosome 2.
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