https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/30/how-to-avoid-inbreeding-1/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:44:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/30/how-to-avoid-inbreeding-1/#comment-5812 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:44:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/30/how-to-avoid-inbreeding-1/#comment-5812 LONG LIVE THE HUTTERITES…;-)http://www.ashi-hla.org/publicationfiles/ASHI_Quarterly/25_3_2001/The%20role%20of%20the%20MHC.pdf”the Hutterites are ideal research subjects. The 400 original settlers themselves were closely related. They are believed to have descended from about 90 individuals…”But what about this ? If we choose to NOT breed with kin, why do women choose men who smell like their fathers?http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1815-women-attracted-to-men-who-smell-like-dad.htmlhttp://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v30/n2/full/ng830.html“Paternally inherited HLA alleles are associated with women’s choice of male odor”

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/30/how-to-avoid-inbreeding-1/#comment-5811 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:28:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/30/how-to-avoid-inbreeding-1/#comment-5811 There was a recent report in Science Daily of a study done in Iceland which found that marriages between third cousins produced the largest number of offspring. Some speculation that reduced fertility in developed nations was related to difficulty in finding/identifying third cousins.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/30/how-to-avoid-inbreeding-1/#comment-5810 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:05:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/30/how-to-avoid-inbreeding-1/#comment-5810 Nice summary, Greg!

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/30/how-to-avoid-inbreeding-1/#comment-5809 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:22:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/30/how-to-avoid-inbreeding-1/#comment-5809 “How do you avoid having sex with your close relatives?”Why do you ask? What have you heard?

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