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That's not how genetics works.
Are you a tortoise fertility specialist?
No, but tortoise have the same genetic principles. One individual just doesn't have the genetic diversity to save the whole species from dying out, no matter how much he spreads his genes. It depends on species, but numbers range around 50 to 150 individuals at minimum.
If they don't die out thanks to him, they die out the next few generations.
I mean 1-2 is much more susceptible to Stochastic bottle necks than 50-60. On the other hand all coming from a single father greatly reduces genetic diversity which has a negative impact. Hard to tell how they would interact.
It's not ideal but it is definitely possible.
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Possible it is. Well, maybe. Because they are weakened by inbeeeding and low variability, more suspecible to sicknesses and environmental changes.
Btw, modern humanity has low genetic diversity too (except some San people), because we had only about 10'000 members sometime after out-of-africa. Some San neighbour is more genetically different from the next than a south american from a chinese.
These guys live so long that in one of their generations, we'll be able to clone more from the remains of dead specimens.
Life, uhhhhh.... finds a way