• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    65
    edit-2
    9 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:

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      919 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.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        7
        edit-2
        9 months ago

        Maybe Mark Anthony was into that slack-jawed gormless look - you never know what causes a career politician to abandon the empire!

    • @thedirtyknapkin
      link
      259 months ago

      Ok, but using a hapsburg as an example of what inbreeding looks like isn’t very representative. That family specifically wanted to look like that. they were very proud of their “noble countenances”. That’s more the result of the generations of selective breeding by the previous generation choosing marital successors. They’re more pugs really, Rather than examples of the general effects of incest. If you want more general results of inbreeding, maybe look to the Whitaker’s. Though, they also likely have other preexisting mental health issues in their family, and there’s no data about their actual family tree.

      In reality tough, it’s likely one of those things that’s not as consistent as “they get all fucked up looking after x amount of inbreeding” there’s just too many factors at play. And I mean, speaking of pugs, they’re no more inbred than golden retrievers. Golden retrievers are beautiful and loving dogs that will die to cancer by the age of 10. So even when inbreeding issues do manifest, it’s not always going to make you ugly.

    • cum
      link
      fedilink
      English
      199 months ago

      I don’t understand the graph, how do 3 people make a baby?

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          -129 months ago

          Are you seriously questioning if someone doesn’t understand the data in the way it was presented and then following it up with a “oh my god it’s so easy” type statement?

          • @Gabu
            link
            229 months ago

            Are you seriously so naïve that you think it wasn’t a sex joke?

      • @Gabu
        link
        49 months ago

        Horizontal connected lines indicate siblings, not marital relation

        • Turun
          link
          fedilink
          5
          edit-2
          9 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.

      • @makyo
        link
        English
        409 months ago

        It’s really badly done. This one seems better:

        Image

      • @KrankyKong
        link
        79 months ago

        Yeah I have no clue what’s happening on the lower half of the image.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          5
          edit-2
          9 months ago

          When your grandfather is also your great-grandfather and the brother of your other grandfather.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      59 months ago

      Yeah, that inbreeding coefficient just proves harder in my mind that Cleopatra looked Greek as fuck, and maybe looked a little… melted