Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue?

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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

similar DNA is bad actually, the whole point of sexual reproduction is to increase diversity to make the population as robust as possible. If you have a ship full of clones all it takes is one virus/bacteria/fungus mutating in just the wrong way and everyone will get infected.

Like, this is why we got a new type of banana some decades ago, it’s all giant monocultures which is hilariously vulnerable to disease.

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