inbreeding
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With Only 10 Vaquita Porpoises Left, There’s Still Hope for a Comeback
The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is treacherously close to extinction, but the population could rebound without genetic problems related to inbreeding, according to researchers who recently studied the species’ genome.
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Adorable, Highly Inbred Land Parrots Are Somehow Genetically Thriving
Flightless, ungainly, and famously bad at sex, the critically endangered kākāpō of New Zealand — the world’s heaviest parrots — are in surprisingly good genetic health after 10,000 years of inbreeding, according to new research.
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Genome Analysis Points to Incest Among Ireland’s Prehistoric Rulers
Evidence of incest and inbreeding has been uncovered at an elite prehistoric Irish burial site, in a new paper that reads like a Game of Thrones subplot.
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New Research Shows That Opposites Attract, But Only Under One Condition
The saying “opposites attract” is a little too simple for my liking when it comes to relationships, but if two new studies are any indication, there might be some science behind that theory. Researchers at Charles University in the Czech Republic published a paper last month in Frontiers in Psychology that proposes single people are…