Modern humans evolved from two lineages

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Scientists just uncovered a shocking twist in the story of human evolution

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University of Cambridge study suggests modern humans evolved from two distinct ancestral populations that split apart 1.5 million years ago .

One of the ancestral groups experienced a major population bottleneck, shrinking to a tiny size before slowly recovering over the course of a million years .

This group eventually became the main genetic source of modern humans and gave rise to Neanderthals and Denisovans .

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