• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    What?

    No.

    Darwin married his first cousin, yeah…that was the social norm at the time, not long ago.

    But he hypothesized and later proved that the inbreeding was a direct cause of his children’s poor health.

    I wouldn’t say he was a fan of inbreeding, just a reluctant participant who eventually warned us of its dangers.