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    Re: Genetic Diversity in a Collection

    Quote Originally Posted by Brandon Osborne View Post
    So locality phenotypes aren't a product of inbreeding?
    Lets save some time, they were already asked that and this is their response:

    Quote Originally Posted by Pythonfriend View Post
    i ignore cases where wildly inbred line-bred BPs are still doing fine, because when determining if smoking cigarettes is healthy or not, i also ignore cases of 105-year-old smokers. 105 year old smokers dont get that old because they smoke, and line-bred BPs that are doing fine are not doing fine because of inbreeding. they are the ones that got lucky, in spite of evidence that the risk of bad things happening is elevated, bad things didnt happen.
    counter arguments were posted and ignored

    I just find it odd that people with the vast genetic knowledge in this thread promote the blind randomized approach to breeding, especially in the name of health, but deny the benefits of selective high homozygosity.

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