Inbreeding gets a bad reputation in humans because we have poor genetic diversity and endless recessive diseases due to going through at least two near-extincti

Inbreeding gets a bad reputation in humans because we have poor genetic diversity and endless recessive diseases due to going through at least two near-extinction events (population bottlenecks) that took us down to 2000 and 55000 humans. https://gizmodo.com/extinction-events-that-almost-wiped-out-humans-5501565 https://gizmodo.com/extinction-events-that-almost-wiped-out-... Many animals can inbreed with much less downside. There are lab mice that are entirely homozygous (inbred until every gene they have is identical). They're not quite as prolific as normal mice, but they survive.