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Adam Lovejoy writes from London: You may not know this, people, but Charles Darwin, the godfather of evolution, came from a family with strong inbreeding traditions. Not only did he marry his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and produce 10 children, three of whom died early and another three were infertile, but most of his relatives were closely related to people they married. For example, both Darwin’s maternal grandparents and his mother were all Wedgwoods. Not to mention that 26 children [...]