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Re:On the Trail of the Denisovans by anon84873628 on Saturday March 02, 2024 @10:39PM (#39578228)
"900M years" is a typo, right? That's the time of the earliest sponge-like animals ever...
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Re:On the Trail of the Denisovans by defrost on Saturday March 02, 2024 @10:43PM (#39578243)
I'd hope so.

The linked article talks about the human bottle neck 900,000 years ago, that's almost a million years, but well short of 900 million.

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Re:On the Trail of the Denisovans by sillystuff on Saturday March 02, 2024 @10:58PM (#39578304)
Yeah, should have been 900K. Can't edit.
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