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Yes | No | Report from FairChase wrote 47 weeks 18 hours ago cjhart27 - From where I come from we know half-white or palmated deer are produced from in-breeding and are detremental to herd health.
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All submitted comments are subject to the rules set forth in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. from FairChase wrote 45 weeks 4 days ago cjhart27 - From where I come from we know half-white or palmated deer are produced from in-breeding and are detremental to herd health.
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There is a lot of in-breeding and dead babies, too in those sects.
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The Newhouse organization is pretty crazy, though -- including more than its fair share of nepotism and other forms of professional in-breeding.
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In this post, I pointed out how the highly unequal distribution of quality of graduate students results in tight in-breeding.
On heterodox Economics and Innovation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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She's now on the road with her one-woman play, Wishful Drinking, a funny autobiographical story about addiction, mental illness and being the product of what she calls "Hollywood in-breeding."
Back in the bikini? Carrie Fisher drops 50 pounds with Jenny Craig 2011
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I'm sorry to conclude you never made it past 6th grade – perhaps your lack of intellect can be attributed to the in-breeding that occured because of marriages arising out of family reunions – but the principles upon which this country was founded were democratic and respected the rights of free speech and assembly.
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The alpha wolf and the beta wolf at the head of the pack, the demonic ones as you called them, could be affected by a non-contagious disease, perhaps a fictitious one, or a prion-borne genetic ailment caused by in-breeding.
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In particular, I loved Gerard Carey, who puts in a hilarious turn as the weedy Reverend Bunting, a man with a crush on his sexton; Jo Stone-Fewings as the local squire, a product of generations of in-breeding; and Geraldine Fitzgerald, who plays Miss Statchell, a clay-pipe-smoking suffragette.
End of the Rainbow; The Invisible Man – reviews Rachel Cooke 2010
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There is a lot of in-breeding and dead babies, too in those sects.
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