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

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 ...

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 -- ...

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

Inbreeding depression is defined as reduced fitness or performance arising from increasing homozygosity of progenies due to successive inbreeding, whereas heterosis refers to the superiority of a ...

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 ...