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Research downplays risk of cousin marriages
USA TODAY ^
| 4/4/02
| Richard Willing
Posted on 04/04/2002 5:42:00 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:39:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Marriage between first cousins, long a major legal, social and religious taboo, is far less likely to produce abnormal children than is commonly believed, a study by leading genetics researchers says.
"Stigma still attaches to these unions," says Robin Bennett, a genetics counselor at the University of Washington and the study's lead author.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cousinmarriages
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To: Sabertooth
... gorgeous, voluptuous 21 year-old identical twins were lovers. Is this a great website or what?
To: PatrickHenry
Is this a great website or what?
As highbrow as it gets.
Although, I'm given to understand that in the throwback offspring of cousins, the brow starts to bulge again.
"Are we not men?"
To: dighton
The founders of Shelbyville have been vidicated!
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posted on
04/04/2002 7:05:09 AM PST
by
aomagrat
To: monkey
It's interesting that Darwin, of all people, married his first cousin, Emma Wedgewood. She was quite rich (from the Wedgewood pottery family), so it probably had something to do with survival of the fittest. Or the richest.
I like Darwin a lot. The suicide bombers are proving him right. They aren't living long enough to breed.
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posted on
04/04/2002 7:16:07 AM PST
by
texlok
To: one_particular_harbour
Very cool. This now means your marriage is legit.
To: Sabertooth
For example, God prohibited men from marrying a woman and her widowed mother, in a time when polygamy was still practiced. There's no genetic reason for that, but it's still incest of a sort. He understood the emotional devastation of such unions and the rage it could spawn.
When cousins are prohibited from marrying, and incest is taboo, it not only prevents intra-family dogfights, it also expands the pool of men with no sexual interest in a given woman and who would be motivated protect her from exploitation and rape.
I aggree...
To: Sabertooth; one_particular_harbour
the brow starts to bulge again.Like this?
OPH and his Momma
To: riley1992; one_particular_harbour
OPH and his Momma
Isn't that OPH on the right?
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Abe: It all began when Jebediah Springfield first came to these lands with his partner, Shelbyville Manhattan. [flash to pilgrims approaching a hilltop]
Jebediah: People, our search is over! On this site we shall build a new town where we can worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets.
Shelb.: Yes, _and_ marry our cousins.
Jebediah: I was -- what are you talking about, Shelbyville? Why would we want to marry our cousins?
Shelb.: Because they're so attractive. I, I thought that was the whole point of this journey.
Jebediah: Absolutely not!
Shelb.: I tell you, I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins.
Jebediah: Well, then, we'll form our own town. Who will come and live a life devoted to chastity, abstinence, and a flavorless mush I call rootmarm?
[the people divide between Jebediah and Shelbyville]
Abe: The town of Springfield was born on that day, and to mark that sweet moment, our people planted this lemon tree (lemons being the sweetest fruit available at the time).
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posted on
04/04/2002 7:52:56 AM PST
by
weikel
To: riley1992
And they say we're not descended from Neanderthals! Ugh! (Scratch! Scratch!)
To: PatrickHenry
Lurking. Letching.
To: Sabertooth
Oooops. You're right. His Momma shaved for the photo and it confused me.
To: Tall_Texan
It's on Rush now.
To: Sabertooth
Clearly these researchers never visited the Ozarks ...
Is that "Dueling Banjos" I hear? Squeal like a pig!
To: dighton
Ya know, I always had my doubts about the "just cuzzins" relationship 'tween Jethro and Ellie Mae ...
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