What's the minimum number of people needed to survive an apocalypse?
A surprisingly small population could save our species. A person walking in the Mojave Desert during the post-apocalyptic Wasteland Weekend festival on Sept. 28, 2019. (Image credit: Agustin Paullier/Contributor via Getty Images) From all-out nuclear war to a giant asteroid strike, it's not hard to imagine ways human life on Earth could abruptly end. But assuming there are some survivors, how many people would it take to keep our species going? The short answer is, it depends. Different catastrophes would create different doomsday conditions for surviving human populations to endure. For...
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