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# At last genetics is being put to serious use (not), for instance to establish whether Richard III was a good king or a scoundrel, and to shed light on the origin of the hump with which Thomas More and William Shakespeare endow him: was that barely noticea
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/nakonets-to-genetiku-ispolzuiut-dlia-serioznykh-veshchei-net-naprimer-chtoby-vyiasnit-byl-richard-iii-khoroshim-korolem-ili-negodiaem-a-takzhe-prolit-svet-na-proiskhozhdenie-gorba-kotor/
- Published: 2021-02-27T10:44:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:41:30.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Monarchies, Science, Humour

At last genetics is being put to serious use (not), for instance to establish whether Richard III was a good king or a scoundrel, and to shed light on the origin of the hump with which Thomas More and William Shakespeare endow him: was that barely noticeable scoliosis hereditary? Besides this, a group of geneticists plans to reconstruct the features of Richard III, so little known compared with other kings, to learn, for example, the shape of his nose, and finally to determine whether he was rather unpleasant or rather handsome. If it is possible, one would also like to learn more about the vile temper of Henry VIII, so like his grandfather Edward IV, the elder brother of Richard III. Outwardly good-natured and even-tempered, a handsome and big man, Edward IV stained his biography with ruthless and systematic violence. Will the already sequenced genome of Richard III be able to tell us about the character of other kings of the Plantagenet dynasty and explain the insane malice that took hold of some of their descendants from the Tudor dynasty?