• cyd@lemmy.world
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    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.

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        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.

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        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