How did pre-industrial tribal societies – for example Inuits, manage to deal with inbreeding even though they were small in size and lacked outside contact?

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How did pre-industrial tribal societies – for example Inuits, manage to deal with inbreeding even though they were small in size and lacked outside contact?

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Answer 1

Australian Aboriginals have a complex system in which you are given a ‘skin name’ determined by your parents’ skin names. This name determines who you can marry and who you can’t and it ensures couples are not closely related. It is still in use in some parts of Australia to this day, and has been for 50k plus years