Repopulation is the phenomenon of increasing the numerical size of human inhabitants or organisms of a particular species after they had almost gone extinct.

Organisms

An example of an organism that has repopulated after being on the brink of extinction is the Dryococelus australis.[1]

Humans

The repopulation of humans after a catastrophic event is a hypothetical concept that sometimes features in fictional as well as traditional literature.[2] In this scenario, only two members of the opposite sex are survivors after some sort of calamity that has happened.[3] This couple, the last two humans on Earth, ends up reproducing and their offspring reproduce with one another, until after a certain amount of time, the planet Earth has a sizeable number of people.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Could just two people repopulate Earth?".
  2. ↑ Firestone, Richard (2006). The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes. p. 154. ISBN 9781591430612.
  3. ↑ Shapiro, Jerome (2013). Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. p. 77.
  4. ↑ Bleiler, Richard (1998). Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years. p. 5.
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