Habsburg jaw likely caused by inbreeding, study finds

Monday, December 2, 2019 - 12:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

New research suggests prodigious amounts of inbreeding best explains the protruding lower jaw that characterized many of the Spanish and Austrian kings and their wives that made up the Habsburg dynasty.

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