.@hbdchick @PALE_Primate
You can take people away from incestuous populations but you can't take incest away from incestuous people.https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/1054808650542239744 …
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Replying to @Nitetrain_1 @PALE_Primate
not all somali pops practice(d) cousin marriage (traditionally). northern somali groups avoided it, southerners preferred it. bucking the trend, it's the northern *pastoralists* who avoid cousin marriage, while the southern sedentary groups favor it.
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Could you send us the reference for that differences between northen and southern Somalies? AGVP dataset shows that Somali presents systematic inbreeding.
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Replying to @Ceballos_Gene
the anthropologist i.m. lewis is your man. he spent much of his lifetime studying the somali and other pops in the horn of africa. here from Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society (https://books.google.com/books?id=9fAjtruUXjEC …):pic.twitter.com/Au6EA5iFws
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Replying to @hbdchick @Ceballos_Gene
that make sense when you look at Somalia today where northen somalia e.g somalialand is very stable and...
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liberal compared to the rest of somalia.
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one of i.m. lewis' books (which i haven't read) is A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://books.google.com/books?id=yoMBQCr4LysC …
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