Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Saturday 17 July 2010 21:24:55 CosmicRay wrote:
> How many people would be needed to safely "seed" that number of descendants
> without the associated problems that a genetic bottleneck can produce?  How
> long, assuming that the population wasn't added to by additional colonisers
> from Earth (or the net difference between joiners and leavers is zero), for
> the colony to naturally attain that number?
>
> Essentially I'm wondering if the station was there right now with that
> number of people, when was it founded and with how many people?

I checked [[Minimum viable population]]. There is no MVP given for humans, but 
the smallest figure is 500 (except for the Laysan Duck which had an effective 
population size of 7 once). To avoid founder effects, they should be from all 
over the world. To grow from 500 to 200k at the maximum worldwide growth rate 
of 2.2% would take 275 years.

Pierre
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