Eerie.
Posted on 08/22/2010 11:01:22 AM PDT by Albion Wilde
My mum... was the first girl to live beyond childhood. Five of her sisters died as babies or toddlers. It was not until many years later that anyone worked out why so many children died and three boys were born deaf... Today there is no doubt among us that this tragedy occurred because my grandparents were first cousins....
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In the UK more than 50 per cent of British Pakistanis marry their cousins.. ... the practice is on the rise and also common among East African, Middle-Eastern and Bangladeshi communities...
the children of first cousins are ten times more likely to be born with recessive genetic disorders which can include infant mortality, deafness and blindness.
...British Pakistanis constitute 1.5 per cent of the population, yet a third of all children born in this country with rare recessive genetic diseases come from this community.
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This is a major public health issue that has huge implications...The cost to the NHS is many millions of pounds.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They provided a lot of troops for French military adventures at the bargain of becoming royals.
William the Conqueror could not have invaded England without their money and troops.
Eerie.
“That is exactly what happened to every ancient Egyptian dynasty and caused them all to die out.”
Ummm....after how many centuries?
One unique contributor to the problems of inbreeding in Af-Pak is that there has been virtually no new blood since the Mongols invaded over a thousand years ago. Constant inbreeding since then has attenuated the genetic mutations much more so than other inbred populations of Europe that got a dose of new blood every couple hundred years.
It's easier to commit suicide when your surrounded by death and disease and poor health in your own family.
According to developing law in the US, it is a Constitutional right to marry any consenting adult. If a homosexual may marry his male first cousin, how can it be “equal protection” for male and female first cousins to be prohibited from marrying? On the other hand, what practical reason could there be for prohibiting male/male or female/female first cousins (or closer) from marrying? This is a different type of “marriage knot.”
I see a little resemblance between the inbred on the left and Thomas Haden Church. Anyone else?
Are you perhaps thinking of Charles (Carlos) II of Spain? He was quite literally a drooling idiot who died in his 30’s, sans offspring.
Most dynasties lasted 500-600 years, some lasted as much as 1,000 years. The longer-lasting generally had more first-cousin inbreeding, the shorter ones tended to sibling inbreeding.
Those two look like the village idiots in our town.
Do you suppose tha Obama is a result of inbreeding, those big ears he has are a sign? OMG!
LOL.
Interesting. And between the Wahhabi rules and the Pentagon's strict ROEs, it's unlikely that American GIs were able to do as much about that problem as they had been in Vietnam, Europe, etc.
“If your family tree doesn’t fork...”
This has happened among the Amish for instance, who have had a historic tendency to subdivide into smaller congregations which then excommunicate each other. And these smaller congregations are based on a small number of families, whereupon endogamous marriage over a number of generations becomes a problem.
It's very sad, as Amish culture is both unaggressive and quite vulnerable to erosion from outside. More on Amish "birth defect" problem here at Link.
“If you go to a family reunion to pick up women...”
Then there is hope.
Not only to the Egyptians, but the Europeans as well. All royalty in Europe was related one way or another by the 18th century due to weddings made for alliances between different countries. Hemophilia was one of the consequences and it plagued Nicolas and Alexandra of Russia because their son had it. One of the reasons for Rasputin gaining power over the Royal couple.
I read somewhere...possibly the Eleventh Edition of Britannica...that the Arabs were one of the purest races still around.
They certainly have their genetic problems.
Still, it seems reasonable to blame not inbreeding per se, but the inferior genes that enjoy better odds of appearing as a result of inbreeding.
OTOH, it would seem that every family has a batch of those. :)
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