Talk:Population bottleneck
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From the article:
- All species being survivors in relation to the levels their environment support, there is reasonable thinking that says human beings are due for another bottleneck sometime soon.
Really? Please provide cites that this thinking is mainstream.
Also, AIDS, whilst a disastrous pandemic, is not anywhere near the level needed for a bottleneck.
- Not globally, but it is approaching (and projected to reach) that level in parts of Africa. (The Black Death was only a regional phenomenon, too.) Mkweise
"From a bunch to a bushel" sounds poetic, but I think will lose some readers (even some fluent in English) -- can someone find a better way to say this? Slrubenstein
- I think a loss of at least 50% qualifies, but I'm not sure. If anyone knows better, please fix the article. Mkweise 01:23 23 May 2003 (UTC)
What is "ybp"? Uncommon abbreviations should either be spelled out in full the first time they are used in an article, or they should be linked to a glossary entry.
- "Years before present" should be spelled out in full at the first encounter.--Wetman 12:52, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
"as the rate of drift is inversely proportional to the population size." No, the rate of drift is a constant. This needs rethinking as well as rephrasing. --Wetman 12:52, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
