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		grondilu on Sept 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet ... 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

NotAtWork on Sept 19, 2014 [–]

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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