Charles Darwin's worries about possible adverse effects of inbreeding in his family seem to have been justified, according to a study described in the May 2010 issue of BioScience. Darwin married his ...

Charles Darwin whose theories on evolution have been the basis of all that we know about the evolution of mankind and genetics may have lost his own progeny to inbreeding says a new study. Tim Berra ...

Charles Darwin, the author of the theory of evolution, may have been right to worry that his children’s health had been affected by the inbreeding in his own family, especially that of his wife, Emma ...

Widespread inbreeding between the Darwin and Wedgwood families was probably to blame for Charles Darwin’s ill health, and the childhood tragedies and infertility that blighted his family. That’s the ...

Charles Darwin may have been right in worrying that the ill health that plagued his family were a result of inbreeding. Darwin didn't only marry his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood-in fact, the Darwins ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For a guy who spent so much of his career studying natural selection, it ...

Understanding the fitness consequences of inbreeding (inbreeding depression) is of importance to evolutionary and conservation biology. There is ample evidence for inbreeding depression in captivity, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – 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 ...

While Charles Darwin studied how inbreeding negatively affected plants as he formed his theory of evolution, he worried about his own family tree as well. And rightly so, according to new research ...

The idea that the environment might have an influence on the negative effects of inbreeding in populations is not a new one, but work recently published in Heredity provides, for the first time, ...

Charles Darwin, the author of the theory of evolution, may have been right to worry that his children's health had been affected by the inbreeding in his own family, especially that of his wife, Emma ...