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Why inbreeding is bad
The Unz Review ^ | 13 Dec 2013 | Razib Khan

Posted on 12/13/2013 6:52:07 PM PST by Theoria

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To: gusty

It’s Australia, they’d be playing a didgeridoo.


21 posted on 12/13/2013 7:53:28 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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It sounded like most of them were mentally retarded and didn’t even know (or were incapable of) basic hygiene.

IOW.....your standard fare Democrat

22 posted on 12/13/2013 7:56:54 PM PST by digger48
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To: Theoria
"Why inbreeding is bad"


23 posted on 12/13/2013 8:02:11 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Theoria

But this is so “incestophobic” and “intolerant” of an “alternative” sexual lifestyle/sarc


24 posted on 12/13/2013 8:02:23 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: Theoria

Have to wonder what led to that!?


25 posted on 12/13/2013 8:14:51 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: ReformationFan

Give society another 20 years . . .


26 posted on 12/13/2013 8:32:54 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Theoria
Bad story. Evolutionists are always saying that evolution is caused by mutations and selection, this is what mutations look like in real life...
27 posted on 12/13/2013 8:40:30 PM PST by varmintman
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To: Jeff Chandler

It will probably be encouraged to increase the number of democratic voters.


28 posted on 12/13/2013 9:00:50 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: Theoria

“Who are we to judge their love?” - Isn’t that what the Homosexual activists screech constantly?


29 posted on 12/13/2013 10:16:25 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: varmintman

The defects seen in inbreeding are typically not mutations. It is the result of combining DNA that is too similar.

All of us have some bad genes but most are not expressed unless there is a matching pair on the corresponding chromosomes. A gene that doesn’t express itself without a pair is called “recessive”.

Birth defects tend to be recessive because individuals that express defects are unlikely to breed. It’s natural selection through sex selection. However, unpaired recessive genes can stay dormant for generations until an individual mates with another carrier.

In inbreeding, you are far more likely to get pairs of these bad recessive genes since the mates share a percentage of DNA. Once paired, EVERY bad gene is expressed. With compounded inbreeding for generations, it becomes a nightmare. I can’t imagine how the latest generations of this family looked...

Humans (and most animals) are generally hardwired to reject incest and seek “exotic” mates because those individuals who didn’t do so were selected against. “Opposites attract” “good girls like bad boys”, “I can’t date you, you’re like my brother”, etc

This family may simply lack the natural aversion to incest and isolated themselves from others to avoid ridicule.


30 posted on 12/14/2013 5:05:35 AM PST by varyouga
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Sounds like the inspiration for an episode on the “X-Files” about a family called the “Peacocks”.


31 posted on 07/10/2014 5:25:20 PM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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