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5 millions is fairly conservative, considering our species may have already experienced a bottleneck of less than 100,000 individuals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Humans



My number is high partly to account for humans being more spread out.

A lot of our bottle necks occurred at times before we really spread out all over the place.




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