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To: SunkenCiv

So if one man had children with that many women... I assume most of these women were all living in a general area (i.e. near each other?) So we are all descendents of inbreds? Wouldn’t those children grow up and have children with each other?


5 posted on 12/20/2021 3:23:58 PM PST by momtothree
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To: momtothree

Kinda like we do now. Sexual reproduction offers protection since we only get half of each chromosome pair from each parent (usually) and the possible combinations are 2 to 23rd, squared. Constant available food supply led to better nutrition, lower infant mortality, and larger family sizes.


18 posted on 12/20/2021 3:29:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: momtothree

Guess this proves we are all inbreds.


28 posted on 12/20/2021 3:36:56 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: momtothree
So if one man had children with that many women... I assume most of these women were all living in a general area (i.e. near each other?) So we are all descendents of inbreds? Wouldn’t those children grow up and have children with each other?

They seem to have evolved into democrats.

33 posted on 12/20/2021 3:43:18 PM PST by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: momtothree

For the vast bulk of human history the only options for mates were reasonably closely related cousins. Most of human history as Hunter gatherers we traveled in family bands and all of the members of the band were related.


45 posted on 12/20/2021 4:10:52 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: momtothree

As recently as two or three hundred years ago, people ventured only several miles from their place of birth, and only met a hundred people in their entire lives.

You do the math. If people only marry those in their small village, and this repeats for many generations - how could they not all be cousins?

So, if marrying cousins counts as inbreeding, we are all descended from inbreds.

There wasn’t even a stigma against marrying first cousins for most of our history. It is only very recently that families spread out across the country.

We send our children out of state to college, they take the best paying job wherever. Meet someone at college or where they relocated for work… that’s all very recent in the scheme of things.


47 posted on 12/20/2021 4:11:37 PM PST by enumerated
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To: momtothree
As long as the kids married "half-siblings" and not full siblings, it should have been less of a problem.

Also, I'm pretty sure God solved that problem in the first centuries after Adam, and again after Noah.

51 posted on 12/20/2021 4:18:32 PM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: momtothree

You’re forgetting about the wanderer, the warrior, the trader, et al.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but guys back then liked to dip their wicks as they traveled about. A lot still do.


88 posted on 12/21/2021 7:19:27 AM PST by AFreeBird
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