Inbred in a sentence as an adjective

Sometimes ordinary people, not rich, act like they're inbred rich people.

For instance, most commercial corn seeds are hybrids, made by crossing two highly inbred plants.

It has vimscript, but vimscript is at best emacs-lisp's inbred nephew who is just as old but huffs glue and has sex with chickens.

The resulting offspring of any two inbreds from two different pools is amazing.

The tigers were intentionally inbred to spread this mutation.

The genetics studies also showed a very low population diversity, so in common parlance they are "inbred".

They don't have to be dissuaded from original thoughts, or curiosity, or a tendency to question what they're taught, because these are inbred instincts.

However, the problem with mouse studies is that they are pretty different, and also the mice they use are really inbred and perhaps non-ideal examples.

I put "natural" in quotes because usually "natural" = "inbred over generations because even primitive genetic engineering techniques with known, proven side effects are better than nothing.

There is some weight in looking at the article as being about deconstruction, what with the title saying so. However, the most important take away, I think, is the effects of isolation on any field of study: "It is a cautionary lesson about the consequences of allowing a branch of academia that has been entrusted with the study of important problems to become isolated and inbred.

There are, for example, systematic sources of error that underlie entire fields, like the fact that most results are tested either on one highly inbred species of lab animal or on lines of human cells that have been selected to thrive well in dishes, and which are therefore, at some level, unlike any cells seen in any living human.

Inbred definitions

adjective

produced by inbreeding

adjective

normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good"

See also: connatural inborn