Mating With Relatives? New Research Shows It Is Not a Big Deal in Nature

scitechdaily ^ | 0505/2021 | STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY

[Buttons12]

There are curious exceptions to those Biblical warnings.

[kaehurowing]

Dueling Banjos

[humblegunner]

We usually assume that inbreeding is bad

Just read any Qanon thread. It ain't pretty.

[grey_whiskers]

ROFL!

[BiteYourSelf]

Ask the British Royalty.🤔🙄

[wildcard_redneck]

Hybrid vigor?

That and the practice of marrying outside the group builds connections between communities and fosters alliances. Inbred communities are self-isolating and eventually they have few allies and eventually the predators come.

[forgotten man]

Ask Hunter Biden. He was poking his sister in law.

[Bratch]

I've seen that show.

It doesn't end well.

[heartwood]

And yet the page has a link to an article about mongooses, who tend to mate with the more distant relatives in their group, and the offspring of close relative matings are smaller and less likely to survive.

Pakistanis cousin marriages in the UK produce around 5% of births, but half of the children born with congenital defects, and not merely because of differing acceptance of prenatal testing and abortion.

[heartwood]

And yet the page has a link to an article about mongooses, who tend to mate with the more distant relatives in their group, and the offspring of close relative matings are smaller and less likely to survive.

Pakistanis cousin marriages in the UK produce around 5% of births, but half of the children born with congenital defects, and not merely because of differing acceptance of prenatal testing and abortion.

[central_va]

This will be a great relief to West Virginians.

[central_va]

Uncle Dad bump.

[whitney69]

This opens the door to pedophilia and a question as to rape of underaged kids in families, either sex either way. It may also change each state’s determination of age of consent. Pandora’s box.

wy69

[CodeToad]

Liberals are regressive and not progressive. They are primal cavemen that will be eating rocks and twigs soon.

[Persevero]

We aren’t mere animals and it is contraindicated for human flourishing.

They eat their own poop, too.

[Persevero]

Yes it had to start with a lot of human inbreeding.

But people lived for hundreds of years. And, there were virtually no genetic mutations yet.

So it worked for a while.

[massmike]

Fifty-five commments on this subject and no one has posted a picture of Donny and Marie yet? You guys are slipping!

[Magnum44]

[TnTnTn]

Well the wedding guest list would be much shorter...

[central_va]

A thread like this requires that you watch and listen to this while you read.

Deliverance