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powercow t1_ish1kn3 wrote

Reply to comment by sunplaysbass in When it's said 99.9% of human DNA is the same in all humans, is this referring to only coding DNA or both coding and non-coding DNA combined? by PeanutSalsa

from what i read, we have less variation than other animals. due to some event 70,000 years ago that caused our population to collapse to only a few thousand

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PhilosopherFLX t1_ishdx0a wrote

Always wonder how that squares with Neanderthal interbreeding when Neanderthals mostly lived 130,000 to 40,000 years ago, right in the middle of 70,000.

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ECEXCURSION t1_ishvhah wrote

Maybe Neanderthals hunted humans to the brink of extinction. Just like humans and vampires!

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Sylvurphlame t1_isirxzk wrote

Nah. A giant race war is something humanity would never engage in…

Wait…

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Angdrambor t1_isjtgb1 wrote

Makes you wonder if they hit that same bottleneck before we wiped them out.

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Xais56 t1_ishh9ox wrote

Depends on the animal. I doubt cheetahs have much variance.

Something hardy and successful and desired by humans though I could see having huge variance. Cannabis plants must have incredible variance between sexually produced individuals. (I'm aware it's not an animal, but the point stands).

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powercow t1_ishztdj wrote

oh for sure some have similar or even less than us. I was talking more about on the average side of things, we are a bit less genetically diverse than most. But especially among endangered species id expect diversity to be likely to be lower than ours. Not all that long ago they discovered a family of stick insect that everyone thought was extinct, living in a bush on a remote island. Since only a single family of them were found, its unlikely they are as diverse as we are.

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LoreChano t1_ishdssl wrote

So this was about the time we started to create art and religion, among other things? I wonder if it's related.

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