What's the bare minimum number of individuals needed to produce a viable species population? If 99% of humans were destroyed, how many humans would be needed to "repopulate" the earth?
>>7684872
approximately 24
only 2 need to be female
>>7684876
sources?
if 99% humans were destroyed, there would still be over 7 million of us
>>7684872
You only need 2 to repopulate if you dont care about inbreeding.
>>7684889
but they need to be 1 male 1 female otherwise you will run into some problems
>>7684889
Why is inbreeding a problem ?
I mean, repeat recessive alleles are the issue here, right ?
So you'd have to kill just 25% of the offsprings, and that's just in the first generation.
After that you'd have to kill even less.
>>7684872
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzddAYYDZkk#t=11
>>7684889
Even with that amount of inbreeding you could have a viable species. Nature will kill every defective individual until the population stabilizes.
>>7684872
If your population is composed of normal people: a few thousands. Several millions if you're dealing with /sci/-tier autists.
>>7684872
>tfw you will never be the literal last man alive stuck with a qt3.14 who feels obligated to repopulate the Earth
Feels bad man.
>>7684872
Adam and Eve could do it, so 1 man and 1 woman.
/thread
>>7684889
>tfw u realize the bible is trying to tell that all of as are inbreds
>mfw
fuck the bible
INTO THE INCINERATOR
>>7684872
23 individuals, 16 female, 7 male.
source: the architect.
We are all going to die of genetical drift anyway.
>>7685668
I don't think you know what you're talking about.
1) It's genetic drift
2) Genetic drift is the random loss of alleles from a population
3) Genetic drift doesn't mean all individuals die, just some
>>7684872
Read somewhere that humanity was reduced to below 3000 in number at some point.
It shouldn't go higher than that.
Define 'repopulate'.
>>7685730
Be able to sustain a growing population without going extinct
>>7685785
why does a population have to "grow"
can't it be maintained at consistent levels.
I mean it's great that doctors make millions off the taxpayers by keeping brain dead old people alive as long as possible, way past their expiration date, but those doctors and their families are rich now. there's no reason to continue this barbaric process.
Let old people die with some dignity left. Don't force them to shit themselves every day for an extra 20 years.
When and old fart dies, the family has a baby to replace the person, it's that simple, and the population is stabilized.
spoon feeding oatmeal into old zombies that spit it back up is a huge burden on society. day and night care and supervision requires multiple people leading unproductive lives changing oldfart diapers.
Have a party for great grandma, and send her off with a bang while she can still think, and isn't all rotten from dementia.
trillions of dollars wasted feeding zombies, and medicating them, and housing them.
put them out of their misery, and you would end world hunger.
>>7685689
>random
atheist word for God.
>>7685834
>spoon feeding oatmeal into old zombies that spit it back up is a huge burden on society.
More like "shoveling massive amounts of unnecessary drugs to sedate the elderly and make a few more bucks off them while pushing them to their grave, is a huge... "burden" on society."
You're an idiot. And a teenager. These are people, and they don't tend to become "zombies" until they're put in a nursing home, bored out of their mind, drugged heavily, and devoid of meaningful interaction. There is little difference between a nursing home and a hospice.
>>7685834
Dont go into politics, please. Though it sounds like your a natural
>>7685882
Don't go into politics
>>>/pol/
millions of old people want to end their pain and suffering, but they aren't allowed. The minute they suggest leaving the hospital and going home to die in peace, a greedy doctor will latch onto them, medicate them, drain their bank accounts, and run them into huge debts against their will, and not let them go until their insurance runs out. usually heavily sedated into a vegetative state where they drool and shit constantly. charging as much as $400 each for tens of thousands of pills that they didn't need, $20 for a single aspirin, that costs a penny anywhere else. forcing the court to sell their home to collect the debt that they themselves created stealing every penny of inheritance from their families and loved ones.
treated like cattle, or worse than cattle
>>7684872
2
there's going to be a lot of incest however but it should work out just fine.
>>7685834
>politics and semantics, all in one post
Off to cable news you go.
>>7685914
>science for science sake is a mistake
>>7686001
It is to an extent. If an outcome has no useful purpose to humanity, it is a waste of time. For example, who cares if time slows down near black holes? It has absolutely no relevance or worth to any organism on Earth.
>>7684946
>until the population stabilizes...
... at zero.
Inbreeding also produces problems in later generations mostly genetic mutations
>>7684872
We have evidence of a genetic bottleneck millenia ago. About 70.000 years ago, humanity was just 3.000-10.000 people in the whole planet. The prevailing theory is of a gigantic volcanic eruption, Toba catastrophe killing most of us.
>>7684886
damn that shook me. humans fucking littering the planet
>>7684886
70 million actually
>>7687064
Learn your loyalties, human. The proper response is to say "damn other people ruining the world for me."
