Inbreeding made the likelihood of latent diseases increasingly apparent, which was detrimental to a species' evolution and expressly prohibited in human society.
However, it was indeed a breeding method. Applied to livestock and plants rather than humans, it became one of the key methods for selecting and preserving superior breeds.
Simply put, the bad got worse and the good got better. As long as the inferior offspring were culled, wouldn't each generation become better and better?
As for the Inhumans, they mainly valued the latter advantage—it could help increase the occurrence of Inhuman genomes. Besides, their lowest class was little different from slaves; they only needed to find a pretext and method to eliminate them.
According to Maximus, defective infants were indeed often born in Attilan.
That was why the genetic gap between Attilan Inhumans and Earth Inhumans was enormous, making them especially suitable for Inhuman genetic research.
"Inhuman genes do not have a double-helix structure. Their DNA is disc-shaped, and what is strange is that these genes can interface with normal genes," Oyin said with great interest.
"Honestly, although inbreeding increases the proportion of Inhuman genes, it also..." Harry kept shaking his head without finishing the sentence.
The people of Attilan generally possessed below-average intelligence. This was partly due to education and partly due to genetics.
The Attilan Inhumans numbered only around a thousand in total, and their class divisions were rigid. At most, there were fewer than thirty nobles in a generation!
They could eliminate inferior individuals among the commoners, but what about defective members of the Royal Family?
It was purely a gamble.
Based on the proportion of disc-shaped DNA in their genes, Attilan's Genetic Council divided its people into ten levels of strength. They believed that the higher the strength, the more likely one was to