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From: robert@weitek.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.med,net.bio
Subject: Re: If sodomy, why not incest?
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Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 10:48:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 23 10:48:12 1986
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The value of inbreeding as a breeding technique depends on the willingness
of the breeder to exercise merciless culling.  In animal breeding, the animals
that show undesirable recessives are destroyed.  In human society, this is
frowned upon.  Without culling, inbreeding is at least as effective at
promoting undesirable characteristics as desirable ones.

For all that, I've heard that a single generation of inbreeding doesn't up
the ante very much, and that first-cousin marriages are sufficiently distant
genetically that they aren't a big problem, so long as ALL breeding in that
line isn't equally close.
-- 

	Robert Plamondon
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