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?

Question

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

With infant and maternal mortality rates as high as they were for these people it mostly didn’t matter.