Fig. 2: Past demography.
a Long-term past demography using the PSMC with a substitution rate of 4.5 × 10−9 substitutions/site/generation and a generation time of 5 years31. b Recent past demography for Crater lions over the past ~200 generations and assuming a generation time of 5 years31. The black line depicts the mean and shaded area the 95% CI for 10 replicates (Supplementary Data 2) each calculated as the geometric mean over 40 independent estimates from the observed spectrum of linkage disequilibrium using the Panthera sp. recombination rate35. c Population census size from 1962 to 2022. Note that no data was collected between 1972-75 and 1978 and 1980 (Supplementary Data 3).
