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I suppose even Krypton has a South (startrek.website)
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[โ€“] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, they kind of were. By him.

He's the one that put forth the theories about the benefits of crossbreeding and the risks of inbreeding. He studied it in plants and wrote several books on it.

And yes, when his first daughter died at 10, the first of 3 that would die young, he worried a great deal it was because of his marriage to his cousin. He didn't have the facts or the data to prove it, but he had a very good inkling as to why 3 of his 10 kids died young and some of the ones that lived were infertile.

[โ€“] FatTony@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I wonder if this impacted his view on eugenics. Probably not though.