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Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell on Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History

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Geneta Diversity - A Minimum Viable Number

There's got to be a minimum viable number, i think. Do you ever deal with that in your book on on a, you know, post apocalyptic rejuvenation of our civilization? What's kind of the minimum vible number that you would need to kind of rebuild the civilization back up? Well, in terms of genetic diversity, em you can look at historical examples where small founding populations have arrived a new land mass or arrived at a new island. So you're probably looking at a few thousand people, give or take,. To have significant and sufficient a geneta diversity for an expanding population to counter no problems down the line.

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