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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The human population bottleneck has been known about for a long time. One striking fact is that there's more genetic diversity in a typical troop of chimpanzees than the entire population of homo sapiens today, because we were reduced to such a small genetic sample during the population bottleneck.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And one of those bastards is responsible for balding

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And, like, half of our genetic diseases.

I don't know the actual numbers on it but it's still their fault and none of you can prove otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

From wikipedia:

A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes, floods, fires, disease, and droughts