Inbreeding Depression
Analogous to organizations that only promote from within or only hire from the same backgrounds - reduced diversity of thought and capability leads to reduced organizational fitness.
Mating between relatives exposes deleterious recessive alleles, reducing fitness. Inbred populations have lower survival, reproduction, and disease resistance. Populations below ~500-1,000 individuals face elevated extinction risk from inbreeding depression.
Business Application of Inbreeding Depression
Analogous to organizations that only promote from within or only hire from the same backgrounds - reduced diversity of thought and capability leads to reduced organizational fitness.
Inbreeding Depression Appears in 2 Chapters
Inbreeding depression exposes harmful recessive alleles, reducing fitness - populations below 500-1,000 individuals face elevated extinction risk.
Inbreeding in extinction dynamics →Florida panther genetic rescue demonstrates how gene flow counteracts inbreeding depression - Texas cougar introduction tripled kitten survival.
Gene flow as inbreeding rescue →