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nature's way of betting everything on one hand and expecting to win.
means reproduction between closely related individuals, which shrinks genetic diversity and lets rare harmful mutations pair up and surface.
from from breed plus the intensifying prefix in-, tracking back to 18th-19th century livestock husbandry, where farmers noticed that mating close relatives to lock in desirable traits also locked in defects nobody wanted.
habsburg jawroyal inbreeding literally deformed european monarchs' faces
cheetahsso inbred they accept skin grafts from unrelated cheetahs
coefficientgeneticists actually calculate inbreeding as a precise number
not always fatalsome isolated populations survive it via purging bad genes