From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   Quadibloc wrote:   
   Wickeddoll wrote:   
   >    
   >> I don't know what you've read, but   
   >> inbreeding really does cause chromosomal anomalies.   
   >    
   > Technically speaking, that isn't actually the reason why inbreeding is   
   > bad.   
   >    
   > Basically, every one of us has genes for dozens of lethal genetic   
   > disorders. But they're all recessive, which is why we aren't dead.   
   >    
   > And the same applies for most of us to serious but not lethal genetic   
   > disorders.   
   >    
   > The human genome is pretty big, though, so when two unrelated people   
   > marry, almost all of the time, while both partners have perhaps   
   > hundreds of recessives for serious genetic defects, not one of them is   
   > the same as one the partner also has.   
   >    
   > Radiation causes abnormal chromosomes. Incest lets matching pairs of   
   > abnormal chromosomes to get together, causing death and illness from   
   > genes that were already there.   
   >    
   > John Savard   
      
   Right, that's what I was taught, but I don't see how what you're saying    
   is different from my point.  There are genetic reasons one shouldn't    
   inbreed.   
      
   You seemed to be implying that there was no good reason to ban inbreeding.   
      
   Natalie   
   --    
   "Wicked little doll, you have no soul"   
   (David Byrne, 1997)   
   http://www.supernaturalusa.net   
   --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp   
   --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux   
    * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1)