Systems cybernetics operates with an identical mode of inquiry when it examines
particular systems or
populations of systems in relationship: «Cybernetics looks at the totality in all its possible richness, and then asks why the actualities should be
restricted to some part of the total possibilities» (IC 131).
Of all the variations in breeding strategies, the most effective at reducing the rate of inbreeding over the long term in this
particular simulated
population was to
restrict breeding to the animals with the lowest average genetic relatedness to the other animals in the
population