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The Habsburgs: Europe's Ruling Family with a Distinctive Jaw
TLDR The Habsburgs, a ruling family in Europe for centuries, are known for their distinctive jaw, known as the Habsburg jaw. This unique feature, caused by extensive inbreeding, resulted in a lower jaw that juts forward, causing an underbite and affecting eating and speaking abilities.
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The Habsburgs were a ruling family in Europe.
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The Habsburgs ruled over multiple countries in Europe for hundreds of years until the First World War.
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The Habsburgs gained power through conquering and marrying, and their distinctive prominent lower jaw is known as the Habsburg jaw.
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The Habsburg jaw is a distinctive prominent lower jaw with an underbite that is often depicted in cartoons making fun of aristocrats.
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The Habsburg jaw, technically called mandibular prognathism, is characterized by a lower jaw that juts forward, causing an underbite, and in the case of the Habsburgs, the teeth no longer even line up, which can affect eating and speaking abilities.
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The Habsburgs practiced extensive inbreeding, which contributed to the development of the Habsburg jaw.
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Inbreeding increases the likelihood of receiving recessive traits, such as the Habsburg jaw, by hundreds of thousands of times compared to children of parents who aren't related.
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