Repopulation

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, you usually have only two members of the opposite gender or sex who are survivors after some sort of calamity that has happened.[3] This couple, the last two humans on Earth, ends up reproducing with one another, then their offspring reproduce with one another, until after a certain amount of time, the planet Earth has a sizeable number of people.[4]

gollark: Well, I have no idea *what's* going on with this.
gollark: Hmm, there is apparently... no traffic there, wonderful.
gollark: Arch (btw).
gollark: I think these things were deprecated æons ago.
gollark: Nope.

See also

References
  1. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160113-could-just-two-people-repopulate-earth
  2. Firestone, Richard (2006). The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes. p. 154.
  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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