| Torillian said:
this only matters if those populations were small enough that they'd be forced to inbreed at some point, and that the populations will not grow past that point later. Sure if you have 10 eligible mates in the population then pretty quickly you run out of possibilities and someone is going to have to sleep with someone related to them by a few generations back or so, but if you have 100 by the time anyone is forced to sleep with someone at some point related to them the inbreeding will be so distant as to be inconsequential. Sleeping with someone who shares a Great Great Great Grandmother doesn't really matter too much from a genetic standpoint. |
Tor, now let's ask the honest questions.
In the very origin of species, the very first species beyond the cell, how did the gen pool prove resilient against the inbreeding problem of genetics?
At the very first moments of speciation when you needed two individuals to procreate?
What about the gene that dictates breeding?
Here's where I'm not very knowledgeable. I know that the cell multiplies, so there is no concept of inbreeding for cells. I'm assuming the same applies to bacteria amiright? Then, what do we consider the very first species proper and do all species breed?
