Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 April 14

= April 14 =

Calling all martial artists/Kung Fu enthusiasts!
Hello! I have a question...

The character in this video I'm a about to post is from the video game Persona 4; her name's Chie, and she's an ardent fan of Kung Fu.

My question is, is the stance she takes at 0:05 and around 1:09 an actual Kung Fu or any real-world martial arts stance? I've had my share of martial arts training, but I've never seen a stance like that (with her arms the way she puts them)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_deiqkxFngY

Thanks!131.247.244.21 (talk) 01:13, 14 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm guessing Chie is the one on the right in the brown? I don't know either way but there is the chance that it's a standard stance and that the animators could only portray a three dimensional stance in 2D in that way.  Dismas |(talk) 02:25, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Choke points in genealogy
Let's say that there are 1,000,000 living organisms in a species, and suddenly 999,998 of them are killed. The two remaining reproduce, and after a long period of time we're back to a million. There's a genetic term referring to the fact that the entire population at the end of the scenario is descended from just a small number of the organisms alive at the start of the scenario. What is it? I'm pretty sure that it's not Pedigree collapse. 98.222.200.235 (talk) 03:32, 14 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Population bottleneck. StuRat (talk) 03:47, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Interesting article. Bison are good examples. The European bison nearly came to an end - and the American bison (which was purposefully hunted to near extinction) also lost a number of varieties within the species. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:31, 14 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Cheetahs had a population bottleneck during the Ice Age. See Cheetah.  69.62.243.48 (talk) 19:49, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * You may also be interested in the closely related founder effect. SemanticMantis (talk) 02:05, 16 April 2012 (UTC)