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"It seems a little near in time for a literal bottleneck of seven women's genetics ..." The bottleneck was figurative. No actual bottle was involved. (I have
by rsync 2y ago
"It seems a little near in time for a literal bottleneck of seven women's genetics ..."
The bottleneck was figurative. No actual bottle was involved.
(I have five figures of karma with which to fight this battle).
- o11c 2y agoA lot of people misunderstand figurative bottlenecks too. The "7 women" does not mean anything like "only 7 women existed at the time". Particularly: * other women existed who only had sons, or whose daughters only had sons, etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton%E2%80%93Watson_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton%E2%80%93Watson_process (about surname extinction, which is basically the same thing other than sex-specific polygamy effects) * other tribes existed (or split off) who later faced extinction due to being outcompeted by these 7 tribes.
- arcanemachiner 2y ago> used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true. The word got misused so many times that Oxford modified the definition, and the wrong way is now right, by consensus. Ah, the joys of a living language.
- gosub100 2y agoI want a browser filter that just removes the word. It almost never adds to the content, it's just a styrofoam filler word.