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pliny on July 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousi...

That is less interesting, in the context of inbreeding, than any of them being products of first cousin marriage.

eru on July 12, 2016 [–]

I think Roentgen, discoverer of x-rays, was the product of first cousins.

(I bet Wikipedia has a list of famous persons being children of first cousins.)

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