Humans generally leave more descendants if they marry someone who is not too closely related. So highly inbred royal families experience many genetic disorders like hemophilia. Inbreeding is connected ...

A new study published in the American Journal of Human Biology has uncovered a significant relationship between family intermarriage and later-life outcomes in one of Europe’s most influential royal ...

The Habsburg family, once at the helm of grand Spanish and Austrian empires, are infamously identified with the "Habsburg jaw", a pronounced facial deformity. Some attribute this to the high level of ...