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[Penner]

Makes me curious what the minimum viable breeding stock for humans would be. It can’t be that big.

Viable? First cousins. Desirable? At the very least least second/third cousins and out. Asking for trouble though that close. Jews actually have specific inheritable diseases due to excessive inbreeding.

According to a new study, all Ashkenazi Jews are basically cousins. More specifically, Ashkenazi Jews are at least 30th cousins. LiveScience reports on the international team’s new study, which found that “the central and eastern European Jewish population, known as Ashkenazi Jews, from whom most American Jews are descended, started from a founding population of about 350 people between 600 and 800 years ago.”

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/184252/ ... th-cousins

That is the thing that, let's say, if we want to colonized some distant star system, science wants to avoid.

[Penner]

https://imgur.com/glzZg9Z

[TheReal_ND]

Presumably super chink designer babies will have escaped Earth while the rest of us wallow in a third world shit hole. Bastards.

[Hwen Hoshino]

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Also hard to immigrate to.

[Fife]

[Fife]

[Hastur]

Makes me curious what the minimum viable breeding stock for humans would be. It can’t be that big.

We were once down to 1000. Some say just 40. But that was back in the year 70.000 BC.

Well, we've waxed. So we can wane. Let's just hope we wane gently. Because once in our history, the world-wide population of human beings skidded so sharply we were down to roughly a thousand reproductive adults. One study says we hit as low as 40.

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/20 ... 70-000-b-c

[Fife]

[Hastur]

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