At 2:30 PM -0600 3/21/02, Ferguson, Sherry wrote:
>It's not really teaching in psych-related, but:
>
>An interesting discussion in the sauna the other day led me to wonder about
>inbreeding.  Brother/sister matings are common in rodents and don't seem to
>cause any overt teratology.  But in humans, they do.  What about other
>animals?  Nonhuman primates, for example?  Anyone know?

I wonder about the observation.
There's culling done in breeding rodents (and other domestic animals) that
is not acceptable in human breeding.

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