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• elif 8y ago
  i think they mean to have a human colony, not to have a creepy incest cult.
• WJW 8y ago
  If you don't care about long term viability, one person would already be sufficient.
• Analemma_ 8y ago
  No. Contrary to the sci-fi trope you occasionally see crop up, you could not make a sustainable human population starting from two people. The inbreeding would render everyone sterile (and probably severely physically and intellectually disabled) after just a couple generations. The actual number in the paper is 98, and even that probably wouldn't be a very healthy population of humans. Around 600, with significant initial diversity, is the number I've seen tossed around as the minimum number for a genetically healthy population.