genetics Archive

  • I established before that Brackett’s formula is a rather non-unique scheme, producing at a minimum a puppy that is 6.25% inbred with the desired ancestor representing 37.5% Blood and a […]

    Brackett’s Formula: Nothing Special

    I established before that Brackett’s formula is a rather non-unique scheme, producing at a minimum a puppy that is 6.25% inbred with the desired ancestor representing 37.5% Blood and a […]

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  • Lloyd Brackett was an idiot, a sexist, and a bigot who not only put his own breed on the rails to ruination, but who has given countless show breeders an […]

    Brackett’s Formula for Failure

    Lloyd Brackett was an idiot, a sexist, and a bigot who not only put his own breed on the rails to ruination, but who has given countless show breeders an […]

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  • In my last post, I explained how one might find “virtual immortality” by having 99.9% of their genes present within one’s offspring.  If these offspring are your children which each […]

    Reconstructing Wiston

    In my last post, I explained how one might find “virtual immortality” by having 99.9% of their genes present within one’s offspring.  If these offspring are your children which each […]

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  • Shifting gears from an unrepentant pro-inbreeding propagandist back to fact-checking an otherwise excellent post, I’d like to take my editor’s pen to Christie Keith’s post at Pet Connection called It’s the DNA, […]

    Inbred Mistakes V

    Shifting gears from an unrepentant pro-inbreeding propagandist back to fact-checking an otherwise excellent post, I’d like to take my editor’s pen to Christie Keith’s post at Pet Connection called It’s the DNA, […]

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  • And now for the final fact-check of Carol Gravestock’s often shoddy rationalization of inbreeding at Absolut Bullmarket French Bulldogs: We might also say that a breeder utilizing this method [line breeding] has […]

    Inbred Mistakes IV

    And now for the final fact-check of Carol Gravestock’s often shoddy rationalization of inbreeding at Absolut Bullmarket French Bulldogs: We might also say that a breeder utilizing this method [line breeding] has […]

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