This teacher really put them to the test. Professor Khair ul Bashar of Comsats University in Islamabad, Pakistan, was fired and blacklisted after posing a question about incest to his electrical engineering students in an exam. “The content of the quiz is highly objectionable and totally against the curriculum laws of the Islamic Republic of … Read more
There are urgent calls for a national sperm donation database to be set up in Australia amid fears that “prolific donors” could be raising the risk of “accidental incest” in the country. At present, Australia’s six states and two territories have their own rules regarding sperm donation, according to the Guardian, but there is no … Read more
They’re a different sort of “blue bred.” The idea of blue-skinned people may seem relegated to the Smurfs and other works of fiction; however, one rural Kentucky family actually sported sapphire skin due to a rare condition sparked by generations of inbreeding. Their shocking account was detailed in a 1982 article by the University of … Read more
It’s just another way of “keeping it in the family.” A new DNA study revealed Monday that several parts of ancient Greece encouraged its citizens to marry their first cousins, according to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The Germany-based institute analyzed 102 different human genomes from Greece’s Bronze Age, and learned that Minoan … Read more