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Was Charles II of Spain unlucky or inevitable mistake of biology?

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As you can see in the pictures, Charles II of Spain was born as a child of relatives. Due to inbreeding depression,he had a lots of abnormalities. But was it just a mere coincidence that the recessive deleterious genes ended up in his bag, or it was inevitable for him to have good genes due to his hierarchy???

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As you can see in the pictures, Charles II of Spain was born as a child of relatives. Due to inbreeding depression,he had a lots of abnormalities. But was it just a mere coincidence that the recessive deleterious genes ended up in his bag, or it was inevitable for him to have good genes due to his hierarchy???

 

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What genetic abnormalities are documented? You will need to present more for there to be a discussion on this.

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Actually Charles had some abnormalities, for eg. He was always sick and weak, his face was quite prolonged and he had a very long tounge, due to which he had to drool. Here is a picture of his-------

 

 

 

 

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