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To: Pikachu_Dad
Oh right - don't bring them into the modern world they might... live longer... have better lives...

If they remain isolated with only 50 to 200 individuals, inbreeding will cause them to begin to die out in about 5 generations.

Inherited genetic diseases and infertility will become more prominent live births will become less frequent.

22 posted on 02/07/2006 6:32:38 PM PST by Pontiac (Ignorance of the law is no excuse, ignorance of your rights can be fatal.)
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To: Pontiac

Pre-neolithic? 50-200? They're probably down to one helix of DNA by now.


50 posted on 02/07/2006 7:48:35 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Pontiac
You are assuming that inbreeding hasn't already happened in the last 60,000 years? My guess is that we are way beyond that now. If it hasn't killed them this long, I'm not sure if it will...in the future. Maybe birdflu will get there before though.
70 posted on 02/08/2006 12:36:22 AM PST by MimirsWell
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To: Pontiac
"If they remain isolated with only 50 to 200 individuals, inbreeding will cause them to begin to die out in about 5 generations. "

One would think. But then how did they survive for 60,000 years?
82 posted on 02/08/2006 6:23:27 AM PST by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: Pontiac
Inherited genetic diseases and infertility will become more prominent

Only if they have the particular bad genes.

106 posted on 02/08/2006 3:04:07 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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