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Re:Out of Africa's midlife crisis by davisYC on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:29PM (#27774279)
the rule of thumb for mammals is Ne is 30% of census size.

i think this is probably an overestimate tbh (assumes poisson distribution of offspring).

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Re:Out of Africa's midlife crisis by AlotOfReading on Thursday July 08, 2021 @04:08PM (#27776983)
I'm not sure that's super applicable to humans. Doesn't it also assume panmixia and non-overlapping generations?

Either way, my understanding is that all indications point to middle and late Pleistocene populations being highly structured and "unusual" as far as standard assumptions go.

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