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I've read that a human population needs to be about 60,000 individuals for it to be genetically viable. That is, to be large enough to be resilient to mutations and various other common lethal forces. I don't know what the current thinking is, but seems obvious to me that a population of 50, or even
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It's an interesting issue. I think that it has been raised on this talk page, but we don't know what to put in the article, because we don't have
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The last one mentioned in the article is 2018. If the editors here knew of a more recent citing (with
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