History and Inbreedinghttps://westhunt.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/history-and-inbreeding/ …
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Replying to @gcochran99
"The Nuer call incest `syphilis' because they see in one the punishment of the other (Evans-Pritchard, 1935, p. 11)."
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Replying to @crimkadid @gcochran99
Of course not an ancient writing, but from 1912: "These Yakut told me that they had observed that children born from consanguineous marriages are generally unhealthy."
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Replying to @crimkadid
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.
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Replying to @gcochran99
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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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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