Crossword-Solution: INBREEDING 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Thus the nobility would continue a program of inbreeding which would inevitably be outclassed by an entirely random reflexion of the world's gene pool.

The family blood had been impoverished, perhaps by long inbreeding, which I knew to be a common error among the proud and the exclusive.

Moreover, close inbreeding also, as the experiments of stock-breeders show, would tend to produce a surplus of male births, and so would act finally in the same way as the second cause.

The people, though still sturdy, seem to have become somewhat dull from inbreeding and to have required an infusion of altogether different blood from without.

Then what need of the showy blossoms hanging in the thicket above? Close inbreeding in the vegetable world, as in the animal, ultimately produces degenerate offspring; and although the showy lilac blossoms of the wild peanut yield comparatively few cross-fertilized seeds, these are quite sufficient to enable the vine to maintain those desired features which are the inheritance from ancestors that struggled in their day and generation after perfection.