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>>here we go again:
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>>10 men in a desert land.. 100 years after.. 10 skeletons..
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>>5 men, 5 women in a desert land.. 100 years after.. A population..
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>PMFJI,
>but who is to say that all 10 people helped to make that population? And I am not sure that would be a viable population, lots of inbreeding occurs with such a small gene pool.

This sounds like a particular small southern State instead of an island. (I'm really sorry, but I just could not resist. The devil made me do it!)