Royals throughout history have often engaged in inbreeding to preserve wealth and power, leading to severe health ...

Sex, mating systems, inbreeding, and outbreeding / Nickolas M. Waser -- Theoretical perspectives. Theory and data pertinent to the relationship between heterozygosity and fitness / Jeffry B. Mitton -- ...

For a family that controlled assorted European territories and kingdoms for centuries, you would think that the Habsburgs would have plenty of opportunities to meet new partners. Still, they appeared ...

Compared with diploid species, haplodiploids suffer less inbreeding depression because male haploidy imposes purifying selection on recessive deleterious alleles. However, alleles of genes only ...

This article was originally published on Sept. 3, 2019. Inbreeding, or mating between two closely-related people, is a strong taboo across the world. There’s good reason for this, of course. The ...

There are many ways to examine the social worlds of fact and fiction, and whether or not they are similar. In an article for* The Atlantic*, I examined the social networks of superheroes, a ...