Third Cousins Have Greatest Number Of Offspring, Data From Iceland Shows

Science Daily ^ | 2-8-2008 | deCODE genetics.

[tnlibertarian]

Third cousins means you shared a great-great grandparent.

I thought it meant you share a great grandparent. People that share a grandparent are first cousins. Their children would be third cousins. One of the first cousins and the other's child would be second cousins. I'm not trying to be picky, just trying to verify.

[Fiddlstix]

Hey! Where’d ya get that picture of my third cousin?

[rellimpank]

--I'm not trying to be picky, just trying to verify.--

--you are also wrong--my children and the children of my first cousins are second cousins--

[primeval patriot]

*sigh*

[heartwood]

The child of a first cousin to you is a first cousin once remove. The grandchild of a first cousin, first cousin twice removed.

[sheik yerbouty]

They pumpkin on Halloween..

[blam]

"That’s what national homogeneity will do for you."

But...but, I thought diversity made you strong?

[AnAmericanMother]

And less boring.

But that tends to up the crime rate and the prison population!

[blam]

I have double first cousins. My mother and her sister married my father and his brother. Each couple had six children. My double first cousins all suffer from Marfan Syndrome (only two lived to 30) but neither me or any of my siblings were/are affected.

[mamelukesabre]

Cousin marriage was the norm in europe too, a hundred and fifty years ago. So watch wich stones you throw.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

I thought diversity made you strong?

As long as it is a diversity of hot, not guilty chicks>

[mamelukesabre]

I didn’t read the entire article. But I don’t have to. I can explain it way to easily.

Couples that love eachother more are more likely to procreate more.

Couples that are more similar genetically are more strongly attracted to eachother, physically, and are thus more likely to procreate.

Obviously, there are limits to this though. Apparently, once you are closer than third cousins, the law of diminishing returns applies to physical attraction between men and women. In fact, in modern american culture, it likely reverses to the point that brothers and sisters are physically repulsed by eachother.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

I see you one Icelandic woman, and raise you one.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

Yay for brunettes! Her caption was "...an average Icelandic girl...".

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

This Icelander is guilty.

guilty of having adorable pouty lips, that is.

[AnAmericanMother]

Marfan's is usually an autosomal dominant, but it can appear spontaneously. 100% incidence sounds like a double dominant. Maybe either the sister or the brother was a spontaneous sufferer -- there's no such thing as a carrier.

I'm analogizing from dominants in dogs, but I think it works the same way.

Very bad thing to have in the family though.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

Pumpkins, indeed

This one is only half-Icelandic.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

Miss Iceland; she's gotta be SOMEBODY's cousin.

[aruanan]

I think this is way more information than I needed. Thanks.

The way we pay attention to genealogy here in the U.S., most people would never know who their third cousins are. Your first cousin once removed is your father or mother's cousin. That person's son or daughter is your second cousin. I think your grandfather's cousin is your first cousin twice removed. That person's offspring are your second cousins once removed and their children (same generation as you) are your third cousins. Wow, the word "cousin" is starting to look really weird.

[aruanan]

Nice, nice eyes.