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how fascinating!

but! one can also argue that by selecting one, two or a few specimens, even if they select it at random, and clone it away. they would be artificially granting an advantage to that speciments specific genetic makeup- thereby effectively bottlenecking the population. assuming each white tiger (or whatever) produces 2 cubs, making 7 copies of 1 of the tigers automatically gives it 14 cubs, thereby decreasing overall genepool by monopolizing 1 child bearing pair,(they clone both male and female), while increasing the fitness of the clones. so in 100 generations nearly all the white tigers will be decendants of a clone.

at this point, a clone is better than nothing at all. I se eyour point, but they aren't going out and killing all be 1 specimen and cloning it, they are working in a genepool that has already been reduced in size, they aren't actively making it any smaller