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Confusion on June 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is there only one human species?

And as with the cheetah, the recentness of the bottleneck may be entirely contingent.

jongraehl on June 23, 2011 [–]

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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