Population bottleneck
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population-bottleneck-162-2512042
title:
Population bottleneck
text:
A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes, floods, fires, disease, and droughts; or human activities such as genocide, speciocide, widespread violence or intentional culling. Such events can reduce the variation in the gene pool of a population; thereafter, a smaller population, with a smaller genetic diversity, remains to pass on genes to future generations of offspring. Genetic diversi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Effects of a sharp reduction in numbers on the diversity and robustness of a population
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck
date created:
2003-02-22T00:56:46Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T15:06:41Z
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