Ewen Calloway, in Nature magazine, writes: Inbred royals show traces of natural selection A provocative analysis now suggests that the Habsburg royal family [some of whom are pictured here — click on the image to go to the Habsburg-laden web site whence come these images] might have evolved under natural selection over three centuries to blunt the […]
Tag: inbreeding
Academic fossilisation alert
“The practice of having Ph.D. graduates employed by the university that trained them, commonly called ‘academic inbreeding’ has long been suspected to be damaging to scholarly practices and achievement,” says this report: But, until recently, precise details regarding the levels of possible damage have not been formally quantified. Progress has been made, however, by a […]