Enough selection can take care of the downsides https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/926746754455822338 …
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Would require a lot of sterilizations, though. Feasible without compulsion?
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Replying to @HobbesianM
The usual way this happens in nature is mortality of unhealthy individuals
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Modern prosperity and medicine have largely eliminated these selective forces, though.
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Replying to @HobbesianM
If we're talking about small primitive tribes, they still have a lot of that
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Many tribal societies dealt with it by practicing exogamy.
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Replying to @HobbesianM
One thing often missed re inbreeding: in animal breeding, it's often used to expose bad alleles to allow selection against them. More exogamy doesn't get rid of the bad stuff as well, just spreads it around more
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