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Originally Posted by Jaden
Interesting thought...yeah, 10 people would have a very low chance of repopulating the planet, even in perfect conditions. Some researchers have come up with 50-100 people (depending on gender ratio) as the minimum, and ideally 500+ people to have a more resilient and adaptive population.
I guess if they also liberated the parasites from the other squads and all the kids in the orphanages, there is more than enough?
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A figure I once heard was at least 2000 (1000 couples) people were needed in order to maintain genetic diversity, though tests with lab animals have shown that as few as 25 couples were needed to maintain managed genetic diversity sufficient enough to avoid genetic mutations.