Posted on 05/04/2010 11:39:26 AM PDT by Bokababe
Charles Darwin's family suffered from the deleterious effects of inbreeding, suggests a new study that serves as ironic punctuation to the evolutionary theorist's life work.
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The irony doesn’t really affect his theory, though.
nobody else was good enough for them
**snicker**
They are an evolutionary dead end.
**snicker**
Any idiot reading the genealogy table of the Spanish Hapsburgs could tell you that. Some of the Hapsburg marriages involved uncles/nieces. The last Spanish Hapsburg had half the normal number of great-grandparents.
They wanted to keep power, status and wealth in the family.
So when I hear about people marrying 1st or 2nd cousins, it always seems weird to me.
Squantos, mom sez I git the watch this week!
We moved to a small fishing village in Scotland in 1948. Much inter-marrying had gone on in those families to keep boats and property within certain families. So many of the residents were seriously strange...in a potty “Margaret Rutherford” sort of way. One woman, lots of money, envied for her lovely fur coat, refused to wear shoes...and our winters were COLD. And though beautifully dressed,(sans shoes), sold fish door to door. Many of my little friends, although smart enough, and some, where the right genes doubled up, were gifted intellectually, ended up with two thumbs on each hand, or two pinkies, lazy eyes, and other maladies from all those double recessives ganging up. I look back fondly on that time, because nothing ever seemed to get done in a “normal way”, but eventually all ended up accomplishing the result desired at the end. (Much like Margaret Rutherford’s comedies.) There is no room in today’s society for people like that, and it is our loss.
A theory by a retard, might be retarded.
It would seem many of his followers suffer from the same malady.
Ironically again, it affirms it. The Spanish royalty example above, does so, too.
With ears that big, it is a possibility Obama may too be the spawn of that same village.
Zero’s was a butt baby.
Go to Allentown, PA and the people look like movie stars after just finishing a round of tennis. But 40 miles away in Wilkes Barre, the place looks like a setting for the Hills Have Eyes.
The first time I went to Wilkes Barre (which is down the mountain from our house in the Poconos) I asked my NJ husband (I'm a Californian), "What's wrong here? I've never seen more homely, gimped out people in my life. Is there some kind of hospital in town for the disabled that brings them here?" Answer was, "Nope, it's inbreeding." That bowl of mountains kept them in for many winters over the generations and I guess too many of them got lonely. I'd say that for a lot of them they have genetically passed the point of no return in terms of out-breeding, because too many guys look like your photo -- and who'd want them?
Unnatural Selection.
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