'Zombie apocalypse' would wipe out humankind in just 100 days, students calculate

Thursday, January 5, 2017 - 13:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A student study suggests that one hundred days after zombie infection spread less than 300 people would remain alive globally. After one hundred days human survivors would be outnumbered a million to one by zombies. Students worked on the assumption that a zombie would have a 90% probability of turning others into the undead. However, factoring in humans killing zombies and human reproduction rates, world’s population would eventually be able to recover.

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