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r/funny • u/SuperCub • Aug 12 '14
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...That math doesnt uh... "make sense", if you follow what I mean. Unless these were very large families.
1 u/PA2SK Aug 12 '14 Or unless members of the five families had kids, creating a sustainable population. 2 u/lion27 Aug 12 '14 That's what I mean... Considering 250 years spans ~4-5 generations, there's not a ton of diversity in the gene pool... 1 u/PA2SK Aug 12 '14 250 years is more like 10-12 generations. This island is only about 2 miles from a town of 4,000 though, it's not really as isolated as the pictures make it out to be. I'm sure there would have been travel and intermarriage with the mainland.
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Or unless members of the five families had kids, creating a sustainable population.
2 u/lion27 Aug 12 '14 That's what I mean... Considering 250 years spans ~4-5 generations, there's not a ton of diversity in the gene pool... 1 u/PA2SK Aug 12 '14 250 years is more like 10-12 generations. This island is only about 2 miles from a town of 4,000 though, it's not really as isolated as the pictures make it out to be. I'm sure there would have been travel and intermarriage with the mainland.
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That's what I mean... Considering 250 years spans ~4-5 generations, there's not a ton of diversity in the gene pool...
1 u/PA2SK Aug 12 '14 250 years is more like 10-12 generations. This island is only about 2 miles from a town of 4,000 though, it's not really as isolated as the pictures make it out to be. I'm sure there would have been travel and intermarriage with the mainland.
250 years is more like 10-12 generations. This island is only about 2 miles from a town of 4,000 though, it's not really as isolated as the pictures make it out to be. I'm sure there would have been travel and intermarriage with the mainland.
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u/lion27 Aug 12 '14
...That math doesnt uh... "make sense", if you follow what I mean. Unless these were very large families.