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Zawn-_- t1_itb0u9o wrote

Reply to comment by ramriot in Voter fraud charges dropped against Hervis Rogers, Houston man who waited hours to vote in 2020 by nosotros_road_sodium

Apparently not. https://www.britannica.com/science/minimum-viable-population#ref1215147

TLDR: 50 is enough to limit inbreeding and 500 is enough to limit genetic drift (idk what that is). This is an old rule however and has since been somewhat discredited. I think. I'm not that into this, i was briefly curious.

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hanniballz t1_itbblh2 wrote

our population bottlenecked to several thousand at one point in prehistory. yet we thrived afterward, so probably some truth to it.

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WilliamMorris420 t1_itbj9z8 wrote

But there's less genetic diversity on the entire human race than in one troop of monkeys.

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