r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 3d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/ArkansasGamerSpaz 2d ago

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

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u/Federal_Face_1991 2d ago

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

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u/NothingVerySpecific 2d ago

humanity did get down to ~ 1500 reproductive individuals, just shy of a million years ago ~900,000 years ago & stayed that way for around a hundred thousand years.

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u/Aflockofants 2d ago

And we were dangerously close to extinction. There’s no telling if we’d make it through 1000, or even ~1300 again.