A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help researchers better understand the appropriate conditions …
Presumably some of them would have to be female, making a Mars colony settled entirely by muskies unviable.
Unviable, but maybe still a net benefit for the rest of us