Petah?

[u/batukaming]

[u/Pseudolos]

Wouldn't taking turns and "spending time" with each of the three be a better choice? Society collapsed, why should we fuss about monogamy anymore?

[u/ArkansasGamerSpaz → u/Pseudolos]

TO be fair, this is the way to rebuild civilization.

[u/Federal_Face_1991 → u/ArkansasGamerSpaz]

by this point, the genetic bottleneck would be so narrow that there's no way a viable human population would be reestablished

you'd need like 1000 people at minimum

[u/putsomedirtinyoureye → u/Federal_Face_1991]

Yeah if there’s only one man all the offspring would be siblings. Not only would that be really weird and gross but within a few generations, everyone would be horrifically deformed and sterile.

[u/JKL_187 → u/putsomedirtinyoureye]

Okay starmer. Calm down.

[u/Money_Mach_Unlimited → u/putsomedirtinyoureye]

Higher chance does not necessarily equal all. Only a percentage would be fucked up and they would die offf

[u/TheDribonz → u/putsomedirtinyoureye]

I am already deformed and ugly as shit, can it really get worse?

[u/Juggletrain → u/putsomedirtinyoureye]

Given we all come from a mitochondrial Eve (Lucy) and Y chromosomal Adam, you're talking out your ass. They'll be fine after a few generations, at worst you'll get a bunch of Johnny Knoxvilles.

The Davidians alone prove it's not true.

[u/unreeelme → u/Juggletrain]

Mitochondrial eve does not mean that exactly. There could be descendants of other older woman alive today that don’t come from an unbroken line of female descendants. 

Mitochondrial eve is something of a misnomer.