Comment on Why does incest result in birth defects?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Interestingly, some species (naked mole rats for one,) are fairly immune to the problem.
Comment on Why does incest result in birth defects?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Interestingly, some species (naked mole rats for one,) are fairly immune to the problem.
AmidFuror@kbin.social 4 months ago
If you selectively inbreed for long enough, the deleterious alleles are weeded out by selection. This is true for strains of laboratory mice, but not for any royal families that I know about.