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Old 08-26-2007, 10:21 PM
mpethybridge mpethybridge is offline
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Default Re: How will the world end

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I'm curious how they might have come to that conclusion. What's the story behind that? 10k is just the size of a single town.

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I read something about this being deducible from something having to do with the mutation rate of mitochondrial dna. I have heard it described as a bottleneck in the gene pool, or something.
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