In population genetics, there is a method of measuring how inbred a certain individual is, known as the inbreeding coefficient. Previously, I used to this technique to examine the amount of inbreeding ...

There are many ways to examine the social worlds of fact and fiction, and whether or not they are similar. In an article for* The Atlantic*, I examined the social networks of superheroes, a ...

We have investigated the fine-scale spatial genetic structure in a managed Scots pine forest. For this purpose, we perform a Bayesian genetic-cluster analysis of 96 geographically mapped individual ...

Charles Darwin, the author of the theory of evolution, may have been right to worry that his children’s health had been affected by the inbreeding in his own family, especially that of his wife, Emma ...

Study shows Darwin had reason to worry about inbreeding in his family Charles Darwin's experiments with plants showed that self-fertilized plants were weaker than those produced by cross-fertilization ...