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Perhaps it would help to give an overly simplistic scenario. If you have 12,800 critters all alive at one point in time, they each spread evenly to 10 differen
by 22c 3y ago
Perhaps it would help to give an overly simplistic scenario.
If you have 12,800 critters all alive at one point in time, they each spread evenly to 10 different regions and then each 10x their population sizes before 9/10 of those regions experienced some cataclysmic event which wiped ALL of that group out.
At no point did you have less than 12,800 critters alive, however all critters alive now show as descending from only 1280 critters.
- totetsu 3y agoIf 9/10ths of your population is living in doomed regions isn’t that a state of near-extinction?
- 22c 3y agoThe overly contrived/simplistic scenario would have catastrophic events happening to 9/10 populations certainly seems doomsday-ish but it's just meant to illustrate how overall a thriving species can still end up originating from only small subset.