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Did royal families in medieval times suspect that inbreeding was leading to genetic issues such as hemophilia or the "Hapsburg Jaw", or did they blame these things on other circumstances?

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How did Nikita Khrushchev manage to stay within Stalin's inner circle for so long without getting swept up in one of the purges?

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We know that dogs were the first domesticated animal, but did early humans learn to cooperate by observing dogs in the wild?

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Did royal families in medieval times suspect that inbreeding was leading to genetic issues such as hemophilia or the "Hapsburg Jaw", or did they blame these things on other circumstances?	209
How did Nikita Khrushchev manage to stay within Stalin's inner circle for so long without getting swept up in one of the purges?	21
We know that dogs were the first domesticated animal, but did early humans learn to cooperate by observing dogs in the wild?	2