• @olosta
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    1013 days ago

    Second degree cousins is not that close though. If every generation has three children, that’s 27 persons. I thinks that for most of human history excluding second degree cousins from the acceptable partners pool would have been impossible. Communities were not that big.

    • snooggums
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      142 days ago

      Second degree cousins

      I can’t stop laughing.

    • @HonoraryMancunian
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      63 days ago

      And if my maths is correct, you only share on average 12.5% of your DNA with them

      • @mEEGal
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        272 days ago

        your math may be wrong, because we have very similar genomes, even compared to complete strangers. hell, even between some species.

        • @HonoraryMancunian
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          212 days ago

          Well, yes. I meant in the sense we share on average 50% with each parent/siblings, 25% with grandparents, etc. I should have said genetics instead of DNA.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 days ago

      Groups often came together to party and marry people.

      There are even rules, like exogamy is common.