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human
ELI5: How come certain plant species and animals, etc can reproduce asexually with no issues developing in the offspring, but when creatures like us reproduce sexually, inbreeding with someone close to us results in lots of health issues and deformity?
gpt
First, the dangers of inbreeding is greatly overstated.  For most of human history we lived in small tribes and villages and... you know.  You have to inbreed consistently for many generations to see a real problem.

Species that clone themselves *do* have this problem, and it's precisely why reproductive solutions that recombine DNA evolved in the first place.  When the entire population is clones, you risk excessive propagation of genetic defects and have a severe risk of infectious attack decimating the species.

But, it's also super easy so some species opt to live with the risk and just brute force their way through with a gazillion clones.