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ActivisionBlizzard t1_itb7yxl wrote

Reply to comment by _ElectricSynapse in A pioneering rewilding project has had an early surprise: a bouncing baby bison. It is the first wild bison to be born in the UK for thousands of years. by grab-n-g0

On a human time scale the genetic diversity doesn’t meaningfully increase with time.

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Delamoor t1_itb9dod wrote

Let us keep hoping that they manage to hang on long enough for it to happen, yeah?

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ActivisionBlizzard t1_itbaebv wrote

Absolutely. Couldn’t be more happy that this type of thing is happening. But it doesn’t negate the fact that eventually the herds genetic diversity will need to be bolstered by outbreeding, which in this case is very possible.

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