A new study published in the American Journal of Human Biology has uncovered a significant relationship between family intermarriage and later-life outcomes in one of Europe’s most influential royal ...

The tale of the Whittaker family's inbreeding started with twin brothers, Henry and John, whose offspring married each other ...

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Inbreeding is a problem in general “because every organism ... For humans, it’s normal to have parents’ lives overlap with children’s lives for many decades, but apparently “it is much less common in ...

But here’s the thing: You don’t have to be sick in order to give your child a genetic disease. Take cystic fibrosis. It’s caused by a defect in the CFTR gene. But you need two copies of the ...

In fact, while virtually every culture in recorded history has held sibling or parent-child couplings taboo, royalty have been exempted in many societies, including ancient Egypt, Inca Peru ...