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Inbreeding...It's hugely taboo for us, but lots of organisms do it.
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Heredity: Outbreeding and possibly inbreeding depression in a pollinating fig wasp with a mixed mating system: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19223924

PloS ONE: The Role of Inbreeding in the Extinction of a European Royal Dynasty: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005174

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