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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago: a new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals. (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Here's the wiki article.

TLDR; They were a human species that lived on an island and were very small.