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Re:I Googled My Mother’s Maiden Name and Found My Family’s V... by tomkwok on Saturday April 11, 2015 @02:51AM (#9358771)
I'm sorry for the confusion. I just thought when the human population was still small long ago, when there wasn't even a concept of 'incest', inbreeding between ancestors was more common and expected. So we all descended from incestors in today's context. Is that right?
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Re:I Googled My Mother’s Maiden Name and Found My Family’s V... by jacobolus on Saturday April 11, 2015 @02:55AM (#9358781)
Yep. If you go back 10–20 generations in anyone’s family tree, you’ll find we’re all the product of sexual relationships between first cousins, siblings, parents and their children, etc.
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