Just to be well and truly fuckin clear. I am not now nor have I ever been nor will I ever be contemplating shagging a family member.
Just to be well and truly fuckin clear. I am not now nor have I ever been nor will I ever be contemplating shagging a family member.
If you had to repopulate the earth from a mass population decline… Would cloning better or inbreeding?
Cloning would avoid swiss cheese problems?
Cloning 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.
If we had a massive population decline, yet, we did not have a global infrastructure collapse (so, magic instant death) then I believe some of the survivors would pretty quickly realize they need yo go find the cold storage of tons of semen samples.
Ah yes, mad max but not fighting over oil.
It would delay them I guess, but unless you plan to clone everyone forever, it wouldn’t be a longterm fix. The genepool wouldn’t get any bigger, so once your population did breed, you’d have the same problem.