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StrawberryFrog
on June 23, 2011
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Why is there only one human species?
Cheetahs are less genetically diverse than humans
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cheetah+genetic+bottleneck
also due to a severe and recent (on an evolutionary scale) genetic bottleneck
Confusion
on June 23, 2011
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And as with the cheetah, the recentness of the bottleneck may be entirely contingent.
jongraehl
on June 23, 2011
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It's hard for me to believe that bottleneck's recentness makes
NO
difference in the likelihood of the current observed amount of diversity (which is what "
entirely
contingent" means to me). I can buy "mostly", of course.
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