# Repopulation

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'''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](/source/Dryococelus_australis).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160113-could-just-two-people-repopulate-earth|title = Could just two people repopulate Earth?| date=13 January 2016 }}</ref>

==Humans==
The repopulation of humans after a catastrophic event is a [hypothetical](/source/hypothetical) concept that sometimes features in fictional as well as traditional literature.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Firestone|first1=Richard|title=The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes|url=https://archive.org/details/cycleofcosmiccat0000fire|url-access=registration|date=2006|page=[https://archive.org/details/cycleofcosmiccat0000fire/page/154 154]|publisher=Inner Traditions/Bear |isbn=9781591430612}}</ref> In this scenario, only two members of the opposite sex are survivors after some sort of calamity that has happened.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shapiro|first1=Jerome|title=Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film|date=2013|page=77}}</ref> 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](/source/Earth) has a sizeable number of people.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bleiler|first1=Richard|title=Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years|date=1998|page=5}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Armageddon](/source/Armageddon)
*[Great Deluge](/source/Great_Deluge)
*''[Repoblación](/source/Repoblaci%C3%B3n)''

==References==
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Category:Population
Category:Human extinction

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