To: boatbums
Your numbers are correct up to a point. Cats reach maturation between 1 year and 18 months of age and can begin producing offspring immediately. Humans take much longer to reach maturation and a single offspring per year is the norm.
At that rate you would be looking at somewhere between 8-12 thousand years. Still well within the realm of possibility when you factor in variables such as war, pestilence, disease, natural disaster, etc....
Excellent research!
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11/25/2014 3:09:32 AM PST by
verga
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To: verga
At that rate you would be looking at somewhere between 8-12 thousand years. Still well within the realm of possibility when you factor in variables such as war, pestilence, disease, natural disaster, etc...
Don't forget that the population was reduced to eight souls at one point.
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