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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ziptoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldon a mission
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    10 hours ago

    Possible it is. Well, maybe. Because they are weakened by inbeeeding and low variability, more suspecible to sicknesses and environmental changes.

    Btw, modern humanity has low genetic diversity too (except some San people), because we had only about 10’000 members sometime after out-of-africa. Some San neighbour is more genetically different from the next than a south american from a chinese.




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    No, but tortoise have the same genetic principles. One individual just doesn’t have the genetic diversity to save the whole species from dying out, no matter how much he spreads his genes. It depends on species, but numbers range around 50 to 150 individuals at minimum.

    If they don’t die out thanks to him, they die out the next few generations.