Inbreeding and accelarated evolution?

[Brian Lauret <zthemanvirus@hotmail.com>]

As you might have guessed from the subject, I've been wondering about how 
inbreeding might influence the evolution of organisms.

On one hand I think inbreeding might accelarate the evolution of new 
characters, as a mutated gene influencing,say, the occurence of 
paedomorphosis, becomes more and more dominant in every generation ( I 
guess).

On the other hand, I argumented against this very idea that inbreeding makes 
organisms more and more alike due to the small gene-pool,wich thus means 
that characters are less likely to change.

Could someone say more about this?

Brian

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