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HM...I was being nasty (and apologized)...leave it alone...
It wasn't an actual question.

I wish I could bury posts and put up a headstone.

Cic you're fine, fuggedaboud it. dig deep enough -we all have threads and posts we'd rather forget on here....

:bolt:

and beest and I hadn't exactly advertised that we were brother and sister...

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 431639)

Cic you're fine, fuggedaboud it. dig deep enough -we all have threads and posts we'd rather forget on here....
:bolt:
and beest and I hadn't exactly advertised that we were brother and sister...

:eek:

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 431639)

and beest and I hadn't exactly advertised that we were brother and sister...

Sooo, banana lady was your Mum.

Kissing Cousins Have More Kin.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.

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The results of the exhaustive study are constant throughout the generations analyzed. Women born between 1800 and 1824 who mated with a third cousin had significantly more children and grandchildren (4.04 and 9.17, respectively) than women who hooked up with someone no closer than an eighth cousin (3.34 and 7.31). Those proportions held up among women born more than a century later when couples were, on average, having fewer children.

Despite the general pattern for reproductive success favoring close kinship, couples that were second cousins or more closely related did not have as many children. The most likely reason, scientists say: offspring of such close relatives were likely to have much shorter life spans, because of the chance of inheriting harmful genetic mutations.

"With close inbreeding—between first cousins—there is a significant increase in the probability that both partners will share one or more detrimental recessive genes, leading to a 25 percent chance that these genes will be expressed in each pregnancy," says Alan Bittles, director of the Center for Human Genetics at Edith Cowan University in Joondalup, Australia, who was not involved in the study.

Interestingly, one evolutionary argument for mating with a relative is that it might reduce a woman's chance of having a miscarriage caused by immunological incompatibility between a mother and her child. Some individuals have an antigen (a protein that can launch an immune response) on the surface of their red blood cells called a rhesus factor—commonly abbreviated "Rh." In some cases—typically during a second pregnancy—when a woman gets pregnant, she and her fetus may have incompatible blood cells, which could trigger the mother's immune system to treat the fetus as a foreign intruder, causing a miscarriage. This occurrence is less probable if the parents are closely related, because their blood makeup is more likely to match.

I've not read one thing in this thread but has anybody mentioned that Incest is Best? Coz that's the word on the street.

"I'm going steady and I french kiss."
"So? Everybody does that."
"Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it."

Incest is best
Give your sister the test.

You mean like that?

I always heard it

Incest is best
Put your (insert relative here) to the test.

I didn't want to say it earlier because, you know, selective defensiveness and all.

I wonder if it's a nature or nurture thing that makes most of us say 'yuck' to the idea of playing silly buggers with our relatives.

Incest among animals is very common, so I would say that our reaction is learned.

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 433669)

Incest among animals is very common, so I would say that our reaction is learned.

I don't doubt there's a lot of truth in that. But it seems like a tendency to inbreed would be undesirable from an evolutionary standpoint... in the long run wouldn't those who went out and mixed up the gene pool win out? So I would think there is some biological basis to it.

A recent study (sorry, I don't have a link) found that, in areas where incest is common, people lived longer.

I'd love to see that... if for no other reason than to see which areas those are!