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Genomic diversity and global distribution of four new prasinoviruses from the tropical North Pacific http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.10.02.616384v1

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I'm pumped to try this discussion prompt, which I'm pretty sure @scottbot.bsky.social shared last week as a way to get math students thinking about how underlying assumptions shape our data. Very conveniently, these 3 super relevant articles have come out in the last year to bolster our discussion!

A screenshot from my powerpoint with a question that reads "If you wanted to calculate the number of people who've ever lived, what data/processes would you need?"
Screenshot of an article: Wangjie Hu et al., “Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition,” Science 381, no. 6661 (2023): 979-984.
Screenshot of an article: Yun Deng, Rasmus Nielsen, and Yun S. Song, “A previously reported bottleneck in human ancestry 900 kya is likely a statistical artifact,” preprint (2024), https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.01.615851
Screenshot of an article: Timothy W. Guinnane, “We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years,” Journal of Economic History 83, no. 3 (2023): 912-938.
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