Inbreeding may have caused Darwin family ills, study suggests

Monday, May 3, 2010 - 11:32 in Health & Medicine

New research suggests that Charles Darwin's family was a living human example of a theory that he developed about plants: that inbreeding could negatively affect the health and number of resulting offspring.

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