Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
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Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
"Woody Allen, anyone?"
"OK - but Soon-Yi Previn isn't actually Woody Allen's stepdaughter, so that's OK....... "
"OK - but Soon-Yi Previn isn't actually Woody Allen's stepdaughter, so that's OK....... "
#32
Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
Luckily this lot don't have the gene for methemoglobinemia which gives a person blue skin. It's a hereditary condition and the best known case is a family of blue people, the Fugates, in Kentucky many years ago. They married too close for a few generations so the odd rogue and generally dormant gene became stronger and there were quite a number of them with blue skin.
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Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
Plus there's a good argument to suggest that in the same way wolves were tamed into dogs, a similar process happened with early humans who, before they tamed themselves, you almost certainly wouldn't want to meet.
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Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
All I know is I definitely wouldn't **** my cousin.
She's not my type.
She's not my type.
#35
Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
I don't have any cousins so I'm not getting any.
#37
Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
Qataris are subject to DNA testing before they marry due to the prevalence of 'in-breeding'. The programme was introduced to establish whether it was going to be ok for said potential suitors to breed (i.e. were they genetically different enough to produce non-disabled offspring).
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Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
Qataris are subject to DNA testing before they marry due to the prevalence of 'in-breeding'. The programme was introduced to establish whether it was going to be ok for said potential suitors to breed (i.e. were they genetically different enough to produce non-disabled offspring).
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Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
I remember at secondary school there was a family with a very odd & unique look about them - think Danny Devito as 'the penguin' in Batman.
There was at least 4 siblings who all looked very similar - but strangely similar - the facial features didn't really differentiate between the males or the females and body size and shape was consistent throughout as well - all were short, fat and round. Stubby legs and arms and fingers.
The rumour was that they're parents were first cousins.
Strange but true
There was at least 4 siblings who all looked very similar - but strangely similar - the facial features didn't really differentiate between the males or the females and body size and shape was consistent throughout as well - all were short, fat and round. Stubby legs and arms and fingers.
The rumour was that they're parents were first cousins.
Strange but true
#42
Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
Mathematically that works, but practically it doesn't, early human societies simply didn't mix enough to avoid some degree of inbreeding. It's just that hunter gatherers were probably a good bit less sentimental about what happened babies born with defects. rubbish, they were probably no less sentimental, what they would have been would have been more practical and aware that there was nothing they could do. Also there is increasing evidence that contact between early groups was frequent, sought out and happened over incredible distances, we have evidence of trade from as far afield as the Tibetan plateau into Scotland. it seems early man was no less keen to socialize, swap the latest gadgets and gossip than we are.
Plus there's a good argument to suggest that in the same way wolves were tamed into dogs, a similar process happened with early humans who, before they tamed themselves, you almost certainly wouldn't want to meet.
Plus there's a good argument to suggest that in the same way wolves were tamed into dogs, a similar process happened with early humans who, before they tamed themselves, you almost certainly wouldn't want to meet.
#43
Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jou...enetic_Odyssey
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/...hic/atlas.html
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/
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Re: Kissing cousins - still far to popular in the UAE
Trade routes do not automatically equate to large numbers of individuals moving around or travelling, and show me an example of trade routes before the upper paleolithic that extended more than about 50 miles. For three quarters of the period modern man has existed individual groups and tribes were highly localised. Inevitably there was interaction between groups but the gene pools were pretty limited.