I think this is way more information than I needed. Thanks.
What does the data from Arkansas tell us?
I’d assume this has a biological basis in insuring proper genetic separation. By the time you reach third-cousin, the odds of birth defects are no greater than breeding with someone totally unrelated to you.
Wonder how this translates to the islamic world where cousin marriage is the norm?
My grandparents shared the same g-g grandparents. I think that makes them third cousins. But they were also related in a couple other ways.(southeastern KY)
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.
I like her.
Don't forget that Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are distant cousins. How did that happen way back when and where? That's REALLY funny. They should have a family get-together.
Does that make the 2nd cousins or 1st cousins once over?
This is kind of a BS study on it's face. A small island nation with a small population and little immigration --- well, folks got to do what they will do and overtime, every one will be 3rd cousins.
I hadn´t seen this news, it is interesting. Here in Iceland it is quite easy to follow your ancestry, I can f.e. trace my ancestry back for more than 1000 years, to the first settlers of our nation. We also have an online tool to do it, called islendingabok.is. Most people here are related in the 8th to 10th generation, we used to be so few after the hardships of danish tyranny, lack of trade freedom, our own backwardness, and volcanic activity and subsequent colds.
One funny fact about Icelandic genelogy is that every icelander can trace his lineage to the last Catholic Bishop, that was executed in 1550 with his sons.
We regularly go to family gatherings, where the descendants of particular couples meet, often at their birth or the place they lived in the countryside. We often say that the purpose of these meetings is to know who you are not supposed to sleep with. But it is always as funny when you hear stories about when shit like that happens, especially if it happens at the family gathering. I heard one such story at my last party, so funny, so sad, in this case the perpretrator didn´t even know he was at a family gathering, he was dragged there by his parents and was shit-drunk the whole time.
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So much stupidity in this I don’t know where to start.
But I can say without a doubt: “science” gets it wrong wrong wrong about 50 percent or more of the time.
likelihood of distant cousin marriage is wherever folks stay put more:
South, Appalachia, Texas....New England, UP..Dakotas
Kali and NE urban not so much
I never married any of mine but woulda bedded a few given the window
