Red Mangrove
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In this instance it would have been severe inbreeding, no? I would imagine that's how humans first worked with junglefowl. Inbreed the ones with desired traits to get strongly overlapping genes goingNew Hampshire Reds actually only had one breed in their ancestry, Rhode Island Reds, so it is actually possible to make one breed out of another without crossing involved.