LACRO 10 королевских болезней, переживших века инбридинга

10 Royal Diseases That Survived Centuries of Inbreeding In the royal portraits of 16th-century Europe, court painters performed a quiet, professional deception. They softened the chins, closed the mouths, and flattened the protruding lower lips of their Habsburg subjects, producing images of dignity that bore only partial resemblance to the living faces before them. The condition those painters were concealing had a name: mandibular prognathism, a severe jutting of the lower jaw so extreme that sufferers could not bring their upper and lower teeth together. It was hereditary, it was worsening, and it was being passed from parent to child across the most powerful dynasty in the world.