| happydolphin said: And this is why I like talking to you. You actually answer my questions. @bold. I wasn't clear. I understood your answer to speciation in a large pool of individuals, that's ok. I was asking a follow-up question, like for example, what happened when the very first species emerged, right after the cell in terms of complexity, whereby breeding became a fundamental part of procreation? Because at that very moment, wouldn't the inbreeding constraint come into play? |
I'll toss on the disclaimer again about this not being my field, but here we go.
Because evolution is a process of eventual and extremely slow changes I would assume that at some point where complexity was increasing from single celled organisms and breeding became an option where they organisms were able to do both and you could again move from the continuum of a species that propogated solely by asexual means to those that can only do so by breeding. This would be similar to how single cells split to reproduce, but can tranfer genes in order to evolve their species, which is midway between totally asexual reproductive cloning and breeding. Therefore I don't believe there was ever a point where inbreeding was a problem for any surviving species as a whole.
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