It doesn't end well.
Posted on 05/05/2021 11:56:54 AM PDT by massmike
We usually assume that inbreeding is bad and should be avoided under all circumstances. But new research performed by researchers at Stockholm University, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, shows that there is little support for this assumption.
The idea that animals should avoid mating with relatives has been the starting point for hundreds of scientific studies performed among many species. But it turns out the picture is more complicated.
“People assume that animals should avoid mating with a relative when given the chance,” says Raïssa de Boer, researcher in zoology at Stockholm University. “But evolutionary theory has been telling us that animals should tolerate, or even prefer, mating with relatives under a broad range of conditions for more than four decades.”
The study also looked at inbreeding avoidance in humans, comparing the results with similar experiments with animals.
“We compared studies that asked if humans avoid inbreeding when presented with pictures of faces that were digitally manipulated to make the faces look either more or less related to studies that used similar approaches in other animals. Just like other animals, it turns out that there is no evidence that humans prefer to avoid inbreeding,” says Raïssa de Boer.
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There are curious exceptions to those Biblical warnings.
Dueling Banjos
Just read any Qanon thread. It ain't pretty.
ROFL!
Ask the British Royalty.🤔🙄
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.
Ask Hunter Biden. He was poking his sister in law.
It doesn't end well.
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.
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.
This will be a great relief to West Virginians.
Uncle Dad bump.
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
Liberals are regressive and not progressive. They are primal cavemen that will be eating rocks and twigs soon.
We aren’t mere animals and it is contraindicated for human flourishing.
They eat their own poop, too.
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.
Well the wedding guest list would be much shorter...
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