Inbreeding Can Be Beneficial In The Long Run

"Of all the subspecies of reindeer found in the high north, the Svalbard reindeer has the most inbreeding and the lowest genetic diversity," says Nicolas Dussex, a postdoc at Norwegian University of Science and Technology´s (NTNU) Department of Natural History.

It was only 7000-8000 years ago that the first reindeer...