Sentence examples for founding population from inspiring English sources

For several decades, these people were assumed to be the founding population of today's American Indians.

And because the founding population of emigres was small, it could only take so much genetic variation with it.

A relatively small founding population was fruitful and multiplied -- aided in the 19th century by polygamy, adding a unique wrinkle to the genetic trail.

"Eventually, when pandas are available for reintroduction, their genes will resemble the genes of the founding population as closely as possible".

Thus, estimating a founding population size is less precise than often presumed.

The sparse record means that the paper's models can't distinguish between a founding population of 5000 that grew little and a founding population of 100 that quickly multiplied to 5000, he says.

Population geneticist Jody Hey of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, was curious about the size of this founding population.

Either scenario is consistent with the exclusive origin of Native Americans from an Asian source but inconsistent with a small, single founding population.

The results of such a test suggest a bottleneck for maize domestication of just 10 generations and a founding population of only 20 individuals ( 8).

He also thinks a founding population in the thousands is reasonable and could force scholars to rethink their ideas about early seafaring.

"This indicates that a single migration of humans introduced the majority of the founding population of the Americas... at the close of the last ice age," Waters said.