{"id":704,"date":"2025-09-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=704"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:00:00","slug":"111-could-two-people-repopulate-the-earth-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"111- Could Two People Repopulate the Earth? Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-704-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/107277205\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-7-24%2Fa40e8e20-f93b-7933-34db-8d46c07ae91d.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/107277205\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-7-24%2Fa40e8e20-f93b-7933-34db-8d46c07ae91d.mp3\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/107277205\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-7-24%2Fa40e8e20-f93b-7933-34db-8d46c07ae91d.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Today, we will be wiping out humanity to ask a simple question- what would happen if there really were only two people left to repopulate the planet? Let&#039;s meet our hypothetical protagonists Cornelius and Cornelia, and in the first part of this scenario we will examine how many children the pair could realistically have given certain assumptions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode:<\/p>\n<p>TBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we will be wiping out humanity to ask a simple question- what would happen if there really were only two people left to repopulate the planet? Let&#039;s meet our hypothetical protagonists Cornelius and Cornelia, and in the first part of this scenario we will examine how many children the pair could realistically have given &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=704\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;111- Could Two People Repopulate the Earth? Part I&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}