quote of the moment
"according to one calculation*, everyone alive today descends from a population of fewer than 14,000 breeding individuals from sub-saharan africa, and the entire population that gave rise to all non-africans was probably fewer than 3,000 people."
-- daniel lieberman
*created by GE laval
posted by b1-66er at 14:01
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That may be true, but presumably all humans are descended from a single living thing at some point in the past, and in fact all living things are descended from a single ancestor in the far past.
It's not clear to me what the relevance of a more-recent population bottleneck is.
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