Saturday, 30 June 2018

zoology - Would a colony with only one male and female collapse?



This is a thought experiment:


If we form a population with only a single founder pair, can this population survive? What would happen? Would this inbreeding cause the population to go extinct? Could such a population continue to exist indefinitely?




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