RogueGallifreyan@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does incest result in birth defects?
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10 months agoCloning would be worse!
Cloning creates identical people with identical DNA. Identical DNA, identical defects, repeated over and over through the colony of twins, triplets, etc…
But it’s a small margin of improvement. Both cases, if the population pool is too small, you’ll eventually end up with sterility, severe mutations, and very early deaths, end of colony within a few generations.
Ironic - Alanis Morissette
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