As we’ve been reminded by the new Game of Thrones spin-off, Westeros and incest go together like brother and sister. That being the case, it probably doesn’t qualify as a spoiler to reveal that ...

Generally speaking, inbreeding is a bad thing. To be clear, I am not making cultural commentary regarding the social taboo of sleeping with your cousin. I am saying that literally inbreeding is not ...

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For reproduction, I have been using a bull which is an exotic breed; it is more of a Friesian. Neighboring farmers have also been using this bull. We have found this method more affordable and ...

Because of its impacts on major life-history traits (for example, mating system, dispersal, aging), inbreeding depression has been central in evolutionary biology. Inbreeding depression is defined as ...

Over the course of history, marrying within families was not an unusual practice, especially in families of royalty descent. Inbreeding, or the consanguineous union of two closely related family ...

Incest, in which children are born from close relatives such as human parents and siblings, is considered an immoral taboo in most societies. This is also scientifically supported by the fact that ...

Biologists have long known that inbreeding can be detrimental. Inbreeding results in less genetic variation, making species more vulnerable if changes occur that require them to adapt. Now we know ...