Timeline for Travelling in space for 6000 years, how many persons are needed?
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| May 8, 2018 at 19:32 | comment | added | EveryBitHelps | @BladeWraith there are actually several major side effects of genetic bottlenecks. The first one that springs to mind is hemophalia. Other royal exampls are the Habsburg Jaw (mandibular prognathism), scoliosis, porphyria etc. Other diseases common in genetic quagmires are obesity, depression, cleft foot, epilepsy, fumarase deficiency, colonic polyposis, Huntington's chorea, Gaucher's & Tay-Sachs, thalassaemia, skeletal dysplasias, diabetes, various vitaman deficiencies & probably colour blindness (if included in the starting breedstock). So yeah, more than just big ears :) | |
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| May 8, 2018 at 14:41 | comment | added | Blade Wraith | @Ron Beyer: Indeed, if you look at the various European Monarchies, they've been breeding with cousins and second cousins fairly consistently for about 800 years in one way or another and it seems the only genetic side effect has been bigger ears. but then again, they occasionally had a small influx of alternate DNA, which could make all the difference... | |
| May 8, 2018 at 14:31 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | "and no one knows what genetic effects 6000 years of second cousins breeding would cause in the long run" Maybe thats how a bunch of monkeys evolved into (mostly) hairless, pale/not-so-pale, tail-less creatures with short toes and the ability to talk. 6000 years is pretty short on the evolutionary scale, so probably won't get super-humans unfortunately. | |
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| May 8, 2018 at 11:58 | history | answered | Blade Wraith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |