Originally posted by vinz
IMO, earth started with 6 pairs of adams and eves.
black adam and eve,
white adam and eve,
yellow adam and eve,
brown adam and eve,
red adam and eve and
jewish adam and eve
all making the love and sex and getting so f*ucked up that they forget whos adams are whose eves.
Sorry, but that's not enough people. Despite what the bible says, 2 people is far too shallow a gene pool to produce a stable population. 12... still too small. In order to prevent inbreeding, each pair's children would have to breed with another pair's, and that would mix their genetic traits.
I read somewhere that for us to establish a colony on another planet, we'd need at least 50 people for short-term (couple hundred years) survival, and 500 people to establish a permanent outpost with a stable gene pool.