From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >    
   > Actually there was a movement claiming just that a few years ago.  I was    
   > never sure if they actually had a point or were just from Wisconsin.   
   >    
      
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