Inbreeding in Chawosauria

"*Inbreeding is the mating of organisms closely related by ancestry. It goes against the biological aim of mating, which is the shuffling of DNA. Human DNA is bundled into 23 pairs of chromosomes, within each chromosome there are hundreds of thousands of genes and what’s more, each gene has two copies known as alleles. Genes determine different aspects of your appearance, like hair and eye colour, as well as biological factors such as your blood type. These genes fall into two categories, dominant and recessive. If one of the genes in the pair is dominant, then the result is you gain the trait of the dominant gene. However, for traits that originate from the recessive gene, you need both genes to be recessive.*"
—BBC Earth

"*The cost of Inbreeding is raw, my parents were first cousins once removed, now you see why I can't stop coughing every winter*"
—Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III describing an unknown pre-existing condition he developed at birth because of his parents' consanguineous marriage.

**Inbreeding** is the reproductive process in which blood relatives of whatever species produce offspring. Inbreeding has occurred among Humans, particularly among royalty throughout History, prominent Inbred people from history involves King Tut, whose parents were siblings.

In the Chawosaurian world, marriage and inbreeding amongst cousins are widely preached in Chawosauria, keeping an ancient tradition that values the importance of a nuclear family having the bloodline of similar ancestors regardless of socio-economic status. But inbreeding offers a down side than an up side; inbreeding decreases the gene pool and genetic diversity, which means the less diverse a person's genes are, the vulnerable that person is to diseases and in some cases, defects. Chawosauria has always found this out through first cousin marriages, but Chawosaurians prefer to shrug it off as occurrences of environmental errors that negatively impact pregnancies, refusing to acknowledge that inbreeding is one of these errors because doing so means walking away from their traditions and customs which an idea Chawosaurians are strongly resistant to. Chawosaurian scientists had to compromise with a reluctant and resistant Chawosaurian populace, so they reveal data and statistics showing that children born to distantly related parents are less vulnerable to being born with diseases and defects compared to those born to parents who are closely related, therefore distant relative inbreeding becomes trivial, and the Chawosaurian public accepted this compromise brought by scientists.

Despite widespread acceptance of cousin inbreeding, incest between siblings and other non-cousin relatives are taboos in Chawosauria, this is known as incest taboo.

## Background

Inbreeding amongst cousins is traditional in Chawosauria, family purity or blood purity, are important to Chawosaurian families regardless of socio-economic class, and that message is widely preached everywhere in Chawosauria. As time goes by. Chawosauria becomes more aware of the risks of inbreeding observed by children born to first cousin parents, having Chawosauria to move to strategic moves to continue on with tradition of keeping ancestral bloodlines completely connected in nuclear families while protecting the offspring and keep the gene pool well conserved.

## See also

* Royal Inbreeding in the Timothian Dynasty
* Royal Outcrossing in Chawosauria