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A lot of guesswork and bs. Two people alive in 50,000 BC? I guess they found a wedding announcement stating there were no guests at that wedding.
by stretchwithme 17y ago
A lot of guesswork and bs. Two people alive in 50,000 BC? I guess they found a wedding announcement stating there were no guests at that wedding.
- amock 17y agoIf you read the article you'll see that they made that assumption because they wanted a conservative estimate of the population and that's the minimum possible number for a successful species.
- mortenjorck 17y agoIs two really the minimum for a successful species? For the next generation to reproduce, it will have to resort to either incest (dangerously similar genetics) or interspecies mating (dangerously different genetics). Then again, I'm not a biologist, so maybe one can correct me here.