Perhaps the Buyur seeded each isle with different genetic stock as part of a very long scale experiment.
Scientists are concerned that the genetic stock that is lost may never be recovered.
They were definitely from the same genetic stock.
They provide the raw material for many medicines and the genetic stock from which agricultural strains of plants are developed.
These were the first generation of children born after the Scourge, bred from healthy genetic stock and more resistant to diseases.
Furthermore your genetic stock is similar to these people's.
Especially since Templeton's crew is all male, so they can set the readings to filter out anything but a female from their genetic stock.
He understood that his research could not be duplicated by other scientists without pure genetic stock to use as a base.
This Board interviewed all people considered to have inferior genetic stock and approved the sterilization of 4,725 of 4,800 cases.
This would mean losing genetic stocks that might someday serve as the basis for better crops, medicines or other products.