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mrgoosmoosreply
lemmy.ca

more okay for having kids with, less okay for just fooling around with

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Dudewitbowreply
lemmy.zip

reletively yes but you still shouldn't.

a 1st cousin has like 16% shared dna. half removed is half that. 2nd cousin is half of the half removed and it repeats.

so 1st > 1st half removed > 2nd > 2nd half removed> ... nth.

after a few steps in your percentage is already pretty fucking low.

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chatokunreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Iirc first cousins have a 5% chance of terrible outcomes, which might sound low but... anyone who has played D&D or other d20 TTRPGs know how often 1s hit.

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Siethronreply
lemmy.world

All humans have like 99.9% shared DNA with every other human on a planet. Hell we have about 50% shared DNA with a banana.

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lemmy.world

I assume the 16% is of the portion of DNA which varies among humans, not the shared portion which makes one human in the first place.

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Country broad, take me home
To the place I shoot my load
West Virginia, mountin’ Mama
Take me home, country broad

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ebolapiereply
lemmy.world

West Virginia exists because they refused to secede from the Union when Virginia joined the Confederacy. They don't deserve to be associated with that flag.

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lemmy.world

You're talking about people for whom "blood relative" and "potential mate" are a perfect circle in Venn diagrams.

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And usually the Americans, try to copy something they have seen in Europe. The beautiful stem circle from the Habsburgs got copied into whatever this is supposed to be.

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Wouldn't cousin's be more okay? Pulling out adds a +1 to once removed.

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sopuli.xyz

Both can be true! (Being siblings and cousins at the same time, requires bit of inbreeding ofc)

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lemmy.world

Can actually be done without any inbreeding. For instance, if a man has children with two women who are sisters, the children would be paternal half-siblings and maternal cousins. Used to be fairly common when arranged marriages and dying in childbirth were normal. Wife died, but the marriage ties are important so you marry her sister.

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sh.itjust.works

An ex of mine had this situation!

Her mom had one guy, got 2 kids with him and divorced him for his little brother, with whom she had another kid.

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I've got 2 sister cousins. My mom's sister was declared unfit, and my parents legally adopted.

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Incest meme aside, I would be fucking furious if one of my fellow siblings put me in the cousin zone. It smells weird there.

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