Timeline for What are the effects of having too small a gene pool?
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| Oct 11, 2016 at 0:19 | answer | added | arp | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 21:45 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @MichaelKjörling: Or the Native Americans, for that matter. Ordinary European diseases became mega-plagues that wiped out well over 90% of the indigenous population of the Americas, because of a low degree of genetic diversity among the populace, which translates directly to a low degree of immunodiversity. (In plain English, it's far more likely that what will kill one random Native American will kill another random Native American than that what would kill one random European would kill another random European.) | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 19:49 | comment | added | Peter M. - stands for Monica | There was a polish sci-fi about world like that, with many genetic defects in a small population after nuclear war. Very brutal. Individuals were evaluated on base of survival fitness, and those found lacking were dismantled for organ transplants to fix those surviving. | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 7:52 | vote | accept | Liath | ||
| Oct 29, 2014 at 19:51 | answer | added | celtschk | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 18:53 | comment | added | user | You may want to consider how it has turned out for the cheetah. | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 18:12 | answer | added | Twelfth | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 16:41 | answer | added | Mike Nichols | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 12:14 | comment | added | ratchet freak | The specific defect depend on what was being carried by the initial population. if all were free of recessive defects then the population will only get new mutations | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 11:06 | history | asked | Liath | CC BY-SA 3.0 |