Some basic biology i’ve learned is that inbreeding causes problems because the genes aren’t diverse enough, but insects breed with what’s essentially their mother. How does that work?
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They breed so frequently and have such high number of offspring that genetic mutations are not noticed like in humans, for example if a few insects die out of thousands that is not as consequential as if a human gives birth to an inbred child with a birth defect. Also many insects do have genetic diversity because their population is large and they reproduce quickly.
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