Interbreeding created later tragedy for Turkish family
45Interbreeding and genetic, not evolutionary...
Very close relatives in a small Turkish village decided to marry many years ago, had nineteen children and something went terribly,terribly wrong!
Four of the girls and one of the boys are not only mentally retarded - they actually walk on all fours like animals.
A Turkish scientist named Uner Tan, who has not only brought the quadruped siblings to world attention,but has also rather modestly named their syndrome after himself, and claims the family is an example of "backwards evolution" - producing a live model for human evolution (or perhaps devolution?), back to a million years ago.
Just a modern uptake of a Victorian freak show? Or just a bad case of inter-breeding that went wrong?
Don't let the local eugenics police get a whiff of this scandal!
A better example of this syndrome may be found in the hallowed halls of the White House in Washington DC.
Surely humankind's future as a species is more reliant on a wider gene pool? Just a thought!
Claims on television that the affliction of these poor unfortunate human beings was some genetic link to the past, a million or so years ago, is in my opinion a load of unadulterated rubbish! It is the result of gross interbreeding!
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Theophanes Level 3 Commenter 4 years ago
You can actually get away with inbreeding if the genes that are used as a foundation (the parents) are good. However inbreeding doubles the chances of genetic defects with every generation that's inbred. Those poor kids probably got a bum deal in the genetic lottery. Look back at any family from 100 years or so ago in rural areas and you'll probably find everyone's got at least one cousin marriage somewhere!
Quadraped kids makes it sound like they might have spinal deformities. Poor dears, I hope the publicity can bring them something positive.
Thanks for this odd news!