• hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    Cleopatra VII would be one of these; she’s always depicted as being beautiful, but she was so inbred that she put Charles II of Spain to shame. Just look at this family treewreath:

    Cleopatra’s coefficient of inbreeding was a fucking staggering 0.45, so almost half her alleles were probably identical. Charles II’s inbreeding coefficient was a paltry 0.25 and he looked like this, so I leave it to you to ponder how hot Cleopatra would have been exactly:

        • Turun@feddit.de
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          7 months ago

          I don’t understand why Ptolomy XII and Cleopatra III are drawn with a different connection to their parents. The local tree looks the same for both, but the lines are drawn differently.

          Edit: nevermind, I scrolled down and saw the comment with the better picture.

    • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
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      7 months ago

      A high coefficient of inbreeding means you get a higher chance of bad things happening. You can still win the genetic lottery even with bad odds.