• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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      15 days ago

      Second cousin means cousin second order (grandchild of a sibling of one of your grandparents), right?

      • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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        15 days ago

        Another way I like to think of it is it’s your parent’s cousin’s kid. So you can see why from their perspective it would feel more closely related, it would be like you having a kid and your cousin having a kid and then you seeing them together.

  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago

    Second cousins hardly matters. Even 1st cousins only increase the chance of anomaly by 3%. 2nd cousins is background noise. If you make each other happy, go for it and let anyone who complains enjoy their divorces.

  • Bob@feddit.nl
    1·
    15 days ago

    That happened to a few of my cousins years ago. We were at a family function so I thought they would’ve put two and two together, but alas.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    Isn’t there some sort of biological thing where you’re more likely to be sexually attracted to your relatives if you don’t know they’re you’re relatives

  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I used to work with this absolute idiot when I was a kid. He was married to his cousin. But apparently he was such a gross dude, that it was too much for her, so she left him. For his brother. She ended up having a couple kids, one with each brother.

    Talk about going out of your way to keep it in the family. Their family tree was tied in a knot.

  • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    A lot of people here are saying that the more genetically similar you are to somebody, the more attractive they are (so long as you don’t grow up with them). I’m here to tell you that those guys are completely wrong

    Studies have shown that (in other animals unfortunately, not in humans) that the more genetically dissimilar two individuals are, the more attracted they are, so long as they can produce viable offspring (aka they can have kids)

    This study would also be done on humans, but that would be slightly morally questionable

    This is an evolutionary trait in order to incentivise us to increase the gene pool when possible. You can imagine what would happen if we only rucked our cousins (look at the royals)

    Source: am biomed student