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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat
interesing question is what would happen if a really big asteroid hit Earth and destroyed most of the human civilisation
let's say if 1% of mankind would survive, then how would the "new" civilisation look like f.e 100 years after the impact, assuming the Eart's climate would turn back to what we know today, after few decades
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It'd cause a genetic bottleneck, and give our species even less genetic diversity than we have today.
Recently I heard that any 2 people taken from anywhere in the world will have less genetic diversity between them than most random samples of chimpanzees from the same tribe.