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Well, the cheetah crossed the Bering strait from North America, through Asia and into Africa, and survived two population bottleneck events in the process. Any
by jmopp 3y ago
Well, the cheetah crossed the Bering strait from North America, through Asia and into Africa, and survived two population bottleneck events in the process. Any other species with a similar lack of genetic diversity as a cheetah would have been driven extinct by that. Kind-of indicates that evolutionarily the cats got something right.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoisn't the inbreeding bottleneck in cheetahs a result of modern era hunting/angry farmers/poaching?
- jmopp 3y agoMolecular clock evidence indicates the population bottlenecks happened 100 000 years ago and 12 000 years ago — prior to modern-era hunting and farming. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5892392/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5892392/
- jjtheblunt 3y agoAwesome link and I didn't know the terminology to use to find it: thank you.