We Homo sapiens would not have existed in the world if it were not for the spectacular escape of our ancestors 900,000 years ago.

A genetic study published last year revealed that the entire human race experienced a great disaster that caused 98.7% of the population to disappear. However, nearly 1,300 remaining people started a new world in an unexpected way, according to another recently published study.

900,000 years ago, our ancestors had a spectacular “escape” from desertified Africa – (Photo: ANCIENT ORIGINS)

According to Science Alert, the near-extinction event of humans occurred 900,000 years ago , or about 600,000 years before our species Homo sapiens was born.

At that cruel population “bottleneck” , there are less than 1,300 human beings left in the world . They are the ancestors of our species and possibly some other extinct human species.

If last year’s research recounted that “apocalyptic” disaster through the DNA of more than 3,000 modern people, then the new study by geologists from the University of Milan (Italy) and Columbia University (USA) ) did explain how the remaining 1,300 humans continued to survive.

They found evidence of an exodus from Africa taking place around the same time , according to a paper published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

With scant evidence including a few bones, stone tools and geological data, scientists discovered that these human remains faced a large part of Africa and a large stretch of land in West Asia. today is dry, cold, lacking food.

But this same dryness – followed by a decrease in sea level – has exposed “land bridges” , allowing them to travel by land from Africa to the Eurasian steppes, sometimes moving across the continent. Travel by rudimentary skis.

Thus, mass migration to avoid extinction in a desertifying Africa also gives humans an opportunity to spread populations, from which to flourish once again.

The means of escape from Africa and other things they devised to facilitate migration and new living conditions also helped these ancestors move further up the evolutionary ladder. , may have been crucial to the birth of our species.