Modern Habsburg Jaw

This distinctive habsburg jaw a new analysis published in the annals of human biology finds most likely resulted from inbreeding.

Modern habsburg jaw.

It is characterized by a jutting lower jaw that is often accompanied by an abnormally thick lower lip and sometimes a tongue that is abnormally large. The family in question is the habsburgs. The researchers were interested in mandibular prognathism perhaps better known as the famous habsburg jaw this was a facial deformity that affected some of the habsburgs notably including king. The most salient indicator of the family s inbreeding the habsburg jaw is what doctors refer to as mandibular prognathism.

Also called the habsburg lip and the austrian lip the habsburg jaw is a physical condition known by the modern term mandibular prognathism. But while the line was intact this inbreeding caused this royal family to exhibit a number of peculiar physical traits especially one known as the habsburg jaw. A new report at smithsonian takes a look back at one of the most distinctive features of a royal family that once ruled much of europe over the course of several centuries.