• hydroptic
    684·
    8 months ago

    Cleopatra VII would be one of these; she’s always depicted as being beautiful, but she was so inbred that she put Charles II of Spain to shame. Just look at this family treewreath:

    Cleopatra’s coefficient of inbreeding was a fucking staggering 0.45, so almost half her alleles were probably identical. Charles II’s inbreeding coefficient was a paltry 0.25 and he looked like this, so I leave it to you to ponder how hot Cleopatra would have been exactly:

    • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
      90·
      8 months ago

      A high coefficient of inbreeding means you get a higher chance of bad things happening. You can still win the genetic lottery even with bad odds.

      • Naz@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        8 months ago

        Maybe Mark Anthony was into that slack-jawed gormless look - you never know what causes a career politician to abandon the empire!

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
      251·
      8 months ago

      Ok, but using a hapsburg as an example of what inbreeding looks like isn’t very representative. That family specifically wanted to look like that. they were very proud of their “noble countenances”. That’s more the result of the generations of selective breeding by the previous generation choosing marital successors. They’re more pugs really, Rather than examples of the general effects of incest. If you want more general results of inbreeding, maybe look to the Whitaker’s. Though, they also likely have other preexisting mental health issues in their family, and there’s no data about their actual family tree.

      In reality tough, it’s likely one of those things that’s not as consistent as “they get all fucked up looking after x amount of inbreeding” there’s just too many factors at play. And I mean, speaking of pugs, they’re no more inbred than golden retrievers. Golden retrievers are beautiful and loving dogs that will die to cancer by the age of 10. So even when inbreeding issues do manifest, it’s not always going to make you ugly.

    • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      19·
      8 months ago

      I don’t understand the graph, how do 3 people make a baby?

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
          618·
          8 months ago

          Are you seriously questioning if someone doesn’t understand the data in the way it was presented and then following it up with a “oh my god it’s so easy” type statement?

          • Gabu@lemmy.world
            253·
            8 months ago

            Are you seriously so naïve that you think it wasn’t a sex joke?

        • Turun@feddit.de
          5·
          8 months ago

          I don’t understand why Ptolomy XII and Cleopatra III are drawn with a different connection to their parents. The local tree looks the same for both, but the lines are drawn differently.

          Edit: nevermind, I scrolled down and saw the comment with the better picture.

  • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    8 months ago

    This makes me think of the film W., a chronicle of president George W. Bush’s life. Who played the goofy-looking, monkey-eared president? None other than Hollywood hunk Josh Brolin (Thanos in the MCU, Cable in Deadpool, Brand in The Goonies, etc.)

    I remember watching this film when it came out in 2008 and thinking, “Damn! George W. Bush is buff!” Especially in the oil rig scenes.

  • kinsnik@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 months ago

    Reverse of this happened for me at the end of The Big Sick. I was “wow, maybe i am racist but the actor is really similar to the guy”… it is based on the real life story of him and his wife