Inbreeding. Is it ok with snakes?

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Originally Posted by asplundii

By your logic then every person on the planet that has a child is practicing inbreeding...

Inbreeding is not breeding together two individuals that at some distant point shared a common ancestor. Inbreeding is the act of breeding genetically closely related individuals together, especially over multiple generations. So yes, it does matter if it is father to daughter versus third cousins twice removed because the prior constitutes two individuals that are genetically closely related and therefore is inbreeding whereas the latter, depending on the actual genetic relatedness, are quite likely not genetically closely related and so could be considered outbreed. And two random animals with a SCA over twenty generations in the past are most certainly not genetically related in any appreciable manner and it would be ridiculous to claim that breeding those two animals together constitutes inbreeding.

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In a sense yes.
Tho I do admit that the further separated the two are the better. In snakes, dogs,and yes people.
At 3rd cousins the genetic similarities are down to 1% if memory serves me correctly. And yes it gets smaller each generation but there will always be some genetic similarities

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