Slide #6
#6 Exaggerated Features
When cousins or a brother and sister breed, their offspring face the increased risk of developing facial characteristics that are more exaggerated. That is, the family’s large nose or pronounced jaw may be even bigger. The child’s eyes may be even more deeply set. Dental issues may also be more evident, with children having definite overbites or underbites. Not only are the facial features more defined, the children’s eyes may be unevenly set in their faces. In one family, the daughter has thick eyebrows and pronounced brow ridge. Her forehead is low and sloping. Her brother has less-pronounced eye socket bones and more delicate eyebrows. His eyes are unevenly set in his face. Both siblings have inherited their facial characteristics after at least one generation of their family has inbred.