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Alice · May 24, 2006, 10:18 AM

I know everyone is just waiting for me to respond to this thread, so I'm going to.

Inbreeding is something that has been practiced in pretty much every culture in every time period. Royal families still do it in order to keep their bloodlines pure.

Marrying a distant cousin is not going to give you two-headed, green children. It's when people start marrying their siblings, first cousins, aunts and uncles that problems start to arise.

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Alice · 10:48 AM

What happens exactly? It's a fairly common practice here in the South. Not as common as people think, but it does happen. Maybe not all mutations are easily detectible or visible, but I know plenty of people who have married distant relatives with (seemingly) no ill effects.

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Originally Posted by Rock

I'm not aware of any royal families that still do this today. In fact, even the historical cases of interbreeding in European monarchies can be traced down to a handful of instances and they're all documented.

Princess Diana and Prince Charles were cousins.

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Alice · May 24, 2006, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Soluzar

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Is this true? I don't believe it is. What about the fact that humans are getting taller, or the fact that some people are now being born without an appendix?

Does a species ever stop evolving?

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Alice · 02:51 PM

I never said FIRST cousins. They are related, though. Distant cousins or something.

http://experts.about.com/q/British-H...cess-Diana.htm

Also, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles are apparently distant cousins, as well.

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Alice · May 24, 2006, 02:52 PM

Which was exactly my point.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Alice · May 24, 2006, 03:00 PM

I just don't see the big deal unless it's very close cousins or siblings. And do you really not know any distant cousins who have married? Because I know quite a few.

I'm not arguing for it, though. I just don't see why everyone is so grossed out over it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?