What if humanity almost didn’t happen?
In this episode of The Part They Usually Leave Out, Jason Roy Gaston dives into the strange prehistoric theory that our ancient ancestors may have crashed to only around 1,280 breeding individuals nearly 900,000 years ago — meaning everything from pyramids to pizza arguments might have depended on a tiny group of stubborn survivors refusing to die.
Join us as we discuss…
🦴 The ancient human bottleneck that almost erased us
🌍 Climate chaos during deep prehistory
🔥 Why evolution is not destiny, but a crooked casino
🧬 The genetic study behind the theory
😳 Why humanity may have been completely evitable
💀 How extinction blinked first
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