In 2004, Mark Laita became a name known worldwide after meeting the Whittakers, who claimed to be “America’s most inbred ...

A super rare disease that results from polygamous inbreeding is reportedly affecting children at alarming rates — and it has no cure. Experts say inbreeding in a Mormon community near the border of ...

This undated photo provided by Tel Aviv University shows a child's mandible that was excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel. (Tel Aviv University via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) Modern humans and ...

UK national statistics have consistently demonstrated higher death rates in infancy (i.e., the first year of life) for UK-born Pakistani children compared to other ethnic groups [1–3]. For example, ...

While incest was generally considered taboo in the community that inhabited Paquimé, it may have been overlooked—and leveraged—by the power-grasping upper classes. Reading time 2 minutes The parents ...

A family said to be the "most inbred in America" consists of several generations who grunt and bark to communicate, starting when the children of two identical twins married and had several kids of ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a child they believe was ...