:)
marlon
Kevin Graeme wrote:
>Well I hear two hobbits can make a shire. And get a couple hobbits, three
>dwarves and a randy elf and you've got yourself a fantasy world.
>
>Seriously? Google "Minimum viable population". You probably won't find a
>satisfactory answer though since it doesn't appear to be a genetics-only
>problem. While the minimum genetic number might be around 50, the
>sociological minimum appears to be much higher.
>
>-Kevin
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Eric Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:52 PM
>Subject: Re: Generational Math
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>>I think inbreeding can draw from the extremes of genetics.
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>>??? how would you populate Mars? How many couples?
>>
>>Eric
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Kevin Graeme
>> To: CF-Community
>> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: Generational Math
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>> Hobbits, midgets, whatever.
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>> -Kevin
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Philip Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:16 PM
>> Subject: RE: Generational Math
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>> > > Don't forget the verse in Genesis that says" "And there were
>> > > giants in the land." Seems like there were some critters to
>> > > marry up with and produce progeny
>> >
>> > Since inter-speciec breeding would have given some of the traits of
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>both
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>> > species, maybe the original Humans were only about 3 feet tall and
>> > breeding with the Giants made us taller...
>> >
>> > Still gotta wonder what God's "original" humans looked like, and since
>> > Adam was made in His image, then maybe God is a midget... Erm, OK,
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>I'll
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>> > stop there <g>
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