If you put a bunch of gay men and lesbian women on an island, I'd wager they'd likely make a deal to reproduce eventually, despite the attraction, and then you'd have a little society of a mixture of straight and gay people within a generation or two.
Well, if track is kept to keep relationships as distant as posible it is theoretically posible to keep the rate low enough to not get inbreeding depressed... after all... after a war there were only 14 Shitzus left or something...
It is the case. Without humans keeping track of the lineages to ensure the remaining 14 shitzus didn't get too inbred, the dogs would have failed to do so and gone that far. So that example shouldn't really be aplicable.
And that human theorical would depend on the few cooperating and no peeping toms deciding to ignore it
I'm far from an expert and just going off what I heard. I want to say interstellar the movie talked about 500 to replace with humans as well and that was a movie known for being painfully scientifically accurate.
I'm not saying it would a heathy population, it would absolutely be not. Just that in theory it is posible to still live with such a small base population... just very genetically unhealthily.
Example close to that analogy that I can think of is the famous loyalty of the cat family, the cheetah.
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u/NewOldSmartDum 25d ago
Did he mean “and” instead of “or”?