Inbreeding can reduce offspring fitness and has substantial implications for the genetic diversity and long-term viability of populations. In social cooperative canids, inbreeding is conditioned by ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Puberty comes with its challenges for Homo sapiens, but for female chimpanzees it presents a particular quandary: how to avoid mating with your ...

We all understand the concept of inbreeding in human terms – where people who are too genetically similar reproduce, resulting in offspring with deformities. With each inbred generation, the gene pool ...

“We consider it a real possibility that the perception of ubiquitous inbreeding avoidance in nature follows from a mistaken view that it is the theoretical expectation.” 1 Theoretical and empirical ...