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minus-squareCrul@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoFrom wikipedia: 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
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