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How small could the population of humans be before we lost the ability to reproduce our numbers?
After a certain point, we would be unable to recover from a mass extinction due to a lack of variance in genes. Lack of variance would cause inbreeding and would then cause defects in the population. I'm wondering how low the population of humans would have to be before we wouldn't be able to recover.
Pekalzz, if you took the time to read the question you'd know that answer is false.
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- JackLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
the was a point. thousands of years a go. the precursors to the human underwent an almost extenction event, they went down to a population of around 200 tops, today we are 7.5 billion.
as you can see even in a tiny population, if the conditions are correct for survival we can come back strong. humans are also the most powerful predetor in the world thanks to our intelligence, it is unlikely we could be wiped out completely unless the was an event that wiped out all life for example a solar storm that pierced the earths electromagnetic field or the collision with a moon sized asteroid.
