Just A Little Challange to the thinking of inbreeding as bad...

[Mime454]

maybe it's a domestication issue?? they need food placed right on them and dont fly

it's because they dont need to survive in the wild anymore i think...

I don't think that Evolution would work anywhere near that fast, if at all. Unless there is selective advantage to not being able to fly, it would take millennia at the very least for genetic drift to make all the moths flightless.

 

[agent A]

I don't think that Evolution would work anywhere near that fast, if at all. Unless there is selective advantage to not being able to fly, it would take millennia at the very least for genetic drift to make all the moths flightless.

they've been domesticated for about 6000 years i think

 

[frogparty]

yeah, when theres no selective pressures on a population you get all kinds of abnormalities, THEN take into account that flightless would be selected FOR due to ease of handling and you can see a solid domestication trend leading to flightless moths

 

[Mime454]

yeah, when theres no selective pressures on a population you get all kinds of abnormalities, THEN take into account that flightless would be selected FOR due to ease of handling and you can see a solid domestication trend leading to flightless moths

6000 years is ample time for artificial selection to take place. Probably doesn't have much to do with inbreeding.

 

[frogparty]

6000 years is ample time for artificial selection to take place. Probably doesn't have much to do with inbreeding.

Thats what Im saying.....artificial selection

However, who knows how diverse that gene pool is now, Im sure theres plenty of inbreeding going on, and has been for 1000s of years.