Interesting, I would have thought that if you could have genetically diverse people as possible that would help, but that some pairs wouldn't be fertile, and th

Interesting, I would have thought that if you could have genetically diverse people as possible that would help, but that some pairs wouldn't be fertile, and that in that constrained environment there would be selection pressures. Also of course selection is made for aptitude, willingness, and fit Is there an algorithm to come up with maximum genetic diversity for a population. Such as given one million DNA samples which 98 are the most diverse from each other? (I had the points on a sphere numerical recipes algorithm in mind) I've never heard of anything like this, but its an idea I have been harbouring for years. Surely some of the genetics diversity could be recorded down, and gentically added to a population at a later date, as to "inflate' the genetic diversity. This would be for germlines. Perhaps this could be done for animals which have gone through tight genetic bottlenecks. I guess there's probably several groups working on this.