You will be fine.
And your kids will be able to count to 23 using their fingers and toes.
You will be fine.
And your kids will be able to count to 23 using their fingers and toes.
Inbreeding is OK for livestock but works less well for humans. Check out some of the people in Kodiak Island AK. To see the negative results in the rural villages.
As long as she's 70 pounds, man. 70 pounds and she's legal.
I dated a girl for a while who turned out to be a cousin, and we even ended up having relations. Here's the deal. Any negative effects tend to surface after about 2-3 generations and the odds of someone that close getting consensual again over those 2-3 generations is pretty freakin low. I saw go for it if she's worth the risk!
You can date/marry 1st cousins east of Las Vegas. West of Las Vegas does not allow barbarian culture. Hope this helps.
By third cousin he probably just means an order of siblings.
You share between 0.3 and 2.0 percent of your dna with your third cousin. I say go for it.
Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are 8th cousins.
This explains why Cheney's daughter is lesbian.
Dick and Bathhouse Barry wrote:
Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are 8th cousins.
This explains why Cheney's daughter is lesbian.
POTD!
I laughed out loud
I have a friend who married his second cousin. They have a kid and it doesn't appear to be retarded. They are from an Italian family though where second and third cousins are treated like first cousins so it was a particularly scandalous ordeal.
If you go back far enough, we're all related. For example, everybody with Western European ancestry is a descendant of Charlemagne. I think something like 38 U.S. presidents are proven to be direct descendants of Charlemagne. Hell, Charlemagne is my 41st and 42nd great-grandfather on my dad's side. And of course if you go back further than that we're all from Africa. And further than that we're bacteria, space dust, blah blah blah.
So go for it OP we're all inbred anyway.
were all related wrote:
If you go back far enough, we're all related. For example, everybody with Western European ancestry is a descendant of Charlemagne. I think something like 38 U.S. presidents are proven to be direct descendants of Charlemagne. Hell, Charlemagne is my 41st and 42nd great-grandfather on my dad's side. And of course if you go back further than that we're all from Africa. And further than that we're bacteria, space dust, blah blah blah.
So go for it OP we're all inbred anyway.
There is a bit of a difference between 40+ and like 3. It really isn't much of a genetic issue (i.e. you need a couple generations of cousin inbreeding for it to be a big issue) but more of a social one (i.e. the jokes about getting dates at the family reunion). Somewhere around 3rd or 4th cousin, you are basically going to be related about as much as anyone who shares you general genetic background (i.e. Irish american to other irish americans not irish american to chinese guy)
were all related wrote:
everybody with Western European ancestry is a descendant of Charlemagne.
This is bullcrap. Everybody wants to be a descendant of a king, so every family found a king they wanted to be a descendant of. And since all kings of course were descendants of an even greater king, everybody claims they descend from Charlemagne or some other big historical figure. It's 100% BS.
Truth it that it's not possible to trace most families' history further back than about 1750. You have a couple of centuries there that are called the dark ages of genealogy. Everything before that is guesswork and wishful thinking.
everyone descends from slaves wrote:
Truth it that it's not possible to trace most families' history further back than about 1750. You have a couple of centuries there that are called the dark ages of genealogy. Everything before that is guesswork and wishful thinking.
WRONG if you are of Nordic blood, you can trace your roots way back even to the 14th and 15th centuries in the very thorough Swedish records.
The records are so detailed and complete that they have been used in generational studies on the epigenetic effects of famine on the next generation, and other interesting stuff.
everyone descends from slaves wrote:
were all related wrote:everybody with Western European ancestry is a descendant of Charlemagne.
This is bullcrap. Everybody wants to be a descendant of a king, so every family found a king they wanted to be a descendant of. And since all kings of course were descendants of an even greater king, everybody claims they descend from Charlemagne or some other big historical figure. It's 100% BS.
Truth it that it's not possible to trace most families' history further back than about 1750. You have a couple of centuries there that are called the dark ages of genealogy. Everything before that is guesswork and wishful thinking.
There are some DNA markers. They don't tell you if your relative is charlemagne or his younger brother. Genghis Khan's line has some crazy numbers.
Reality is when you are 15+ generations out, your number of relatives is crazy high
Hey moron, let's do some math. There were about 300 million people living around the time of Charlemagne. 2^42 is 2199023255552 which is way bigger than 300 million. So obviously our ancestors were having kids with cousins and distant cousins.
If you have European ancestry it's usually very easy to trace it back, especially when you run into the royal families (which you inevitably will) because they keep detailed records. Of course we're also related to the peasants and criminals from back in the day too (but they don't usually keep detailed records of them) Same goes for Asians and Genghis Khan. If we go all the way back ALL of us are related in some way.
In all seriousness, 3rd cousin is probably distant enough to avoid defects etc so OP you're fine.
were all related wrote:
Hey moron, let's do some math. There were about 300 million people living around the time of Charlemagne. 2^42 is 2199023255552 which is way bigger than 300 million. So obviously our ancestors were having kids with cousins and distant cousins.
If you have European ancestry it's usually very easy to trace it back, especially when you run into the royal families (which you inevitably will) because they keep detailed records. Of course we're also related to the peasants and criminals from back in the day too (but they don't usually keep detailed records of them) Same goes for Asians and Genghis Khan. If we go all the way back ALL of us are related in some way.
In all seriousness, 3rd cousin is probably distant enough to avoid defects etc so OP you're fine.
Yes,everyone in Australia is a descendant of a peasant/criminal. Its very noticeable..shifty eyes, bad posture, high levels of alcoholism and kleptomania.