Re:After discovering he has at least 17 kids, man sues ferti...
by blueblimp on Friday October 04, 2019 @02:38AM
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You're right. It's weird that people are rushing in here to defend inbreeding.
What people might not realize is even when there's not a specific disease caused by the inbreeding, there is still an overall negative effect on health, "inbreeding depression".
What people might not realize is even when there's not a specific disease caused by the inbreeding, there is still an overall negative effect on health, "inbreeding depression".
Here is a paper that estimates the effect in humans: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26131930.