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Robysto7 t1_iufrmmx wrote

Reply to comment by Crystal1501 in [WP] Six adults are left to rebuild society: the nerd, the jock, the mean girl, the quiet person, the snob and the bossy guy. The rest of humanity is wiped. Somehow, these people managed to work together to re-build. Describe the journey. by Crystal1501

Glad you enjoyed it. I have to disagree with the thought of natural selection rescuing humanity. Natural selection is a cruel mistress, without the correct balance of environmental pressures species go extinct. Species go extinct a lot on a geological timeline. Only six people means we're boned, gene pool isn't deep enough and there are no similar enough species to interbreed with that could produce viable offspring. We'd end up like a lot of things, a dead end of an evolutionary branch.

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Crystal1501 OP t1_iufsqh7 wrote

Still think there's a chance. Either my sister or my mum found out a while ago - which I just double checked myself - that all of humanity has a common female ancestor. If that's true, then humanity hasn't always had a deep gene pool, so it's possible six people could recover the species!

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