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Why humans have surprisingly little genetic diversity

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Humanity is wildly inbred on a global scale. A catastrophic ancient population crash reduced our ancestors to just a few thousand individuals, meaning nearly eight billion modern humans share less genetic diversity than a random pack of wild chimpanzees.

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