History and Inbreedinghttps://westhunt.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/history-and-inbreeding/ …
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I think the disadvantages of cousin marriage have been known for a very long time. Naturally, woke types are all for it - presumably in an effort to be consistent.
You might be on to something: the greatest scientific superpower of the ancient world was the only society in history where brother sister marriage was common.
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Of course that is not true.
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"In the usable census returns, brother sister marriages account for between 15-21 percent of all ongoing marriages (n=113)."
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Although I cannot find it in the text, apparently Plutarch discusses incest prohibitions in his Moralia, but is totally oblivious to the possibility that it could lead to birth defects. So it seems the amazing ancient Greeks were the only people dumb enough not to know this.
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