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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

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 ~~tree~~wreath:

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] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What does the different types of lines mean? Solid vs lines vs dotted?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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