Inbreeding Part I

Medical Topic of the Day: Today begins my two part series on inbreeding.

Everyone has heard the term "nature favors diversity" at least non-inbred people have. Look at Tiger Woods: Asian, African-American, great athlete, intelligence, good looks, he has it all. He even has a harem. Do you have a harem? I didn't think so.

Tiger Woods is under the pile of women.

Off the Top of My Head:  Everyone knows that inbreeding is wrong, right?  The Egyptians set a dangerous precedent with their pointy-ass heads.  That shit doesn't happen if you aren't banging your sister is all I'm sayin.  Look a this shit:

Ecephalopathy can't be healthy.

The European and Russian royal families followed the Egyptian's example to a T.  The last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, was unable to produce a suitable male heir.  Alexei, his only son suffered from hemophilia, a disease in which his blood did not clot making even a paper cut a life-threatening injury.  This eventually led to Nicholas' overthrow (Sort of, Nicholas was also a terrible leader.) and the original communist party.  That's right, inbreeding leads to communism.  You heard it here first.

The European royal families were arguably worse.  Look at this family tree:

Aww, man, you started with two and ended with one?

European royal families took keeping it in the family way too serious.  Look at that family tree up there.  What you are looking at is the Hapsburg family tree.  The Hapsburg royal families were famous for producing offspring with all kinds of genetic defects including one named after then, the Hapsburg Jaw.  Charles II of Spain did not learn to speak until he was eight and was unable to produce any offspring.  The coroner who performed his autopsy stated that Charles "had a single testicle as black as carbon and a head full of water."

Not real pretty either.

Stay tuned, tomorrow we explore what exactly it is about inbreeding that makes it so bad.  I mean besides the fact that you want to have sex with your own family.

Quest To 180:
10K steps, good workout yesterday though.

The MAN:
I don't even know.