I didn’t read the article but I sure as hell wouldn’t marry my cousin
Modern muslims from certain nations often marry their cousins, as well as in other regions of the world. Bad for genetic fitness over the long term.
Why the ■■■■ would someone marry their cousin?! Like nooooooooo that is your god damn family member??? Incest is bad why are people like this.
This article gave me depression simply because of the fact that they were able to do a study for it omfg
What is this the ■■■■■■■ dark ages.
I would never marry my cousin.
N3ver ever
What if your cousin was Scarlet Johansson 
Well that a different story then hahaha
■■■■ no. If we are family we ain’t ■■■■■■■. We ain’t doing ■■■■ romantically. I don’t give a ■■■■ who it is.
I was just joking Noise.
It’s interesting how in the past people seemed to think it ok to marry cousins or nieces to marry uncles. I mean in western and European countries. I guess with recent scientific knowledge about genetics, these sorts of relationships have become taboo.
In my case, I have female cousins but I only see them every ten years when there’s a wedding or funeral, so they’re not really like ‘family’ to me, more like strangers. But would I want to marry them, no cos I’m not interested in marrying anyone.
If you marry someone of your own race with family that comes from the same region as yours, chances are you’re at least a bit related.
Edit: for that matter, all humans are a bit related, it’s a question of how closely.
But didn’t we all come from the same people somewhere down the line?
Our human family is growing rapidly. In 1800, about one billion people lived in the world. This number had doubled by 1930, tripled by 1960, and officially reached six billion in October 1999. Because of this population explosion, everyone alive today shares recent common ancestors: the average marriage in Europe is between sixth cousins, who share a great, great, great, great, great grandparent. However, this varies a lot from place to place, and people living in isolated communities will be more closely related.
The issue is like playing Russian roulette. All of us carry recessive genes in our DNA that do not express disease because they are balanced by normal genes. Things like cystic fibrosis are carried by 1/20, sickle cell 1/12. All of us carry an estimated 4 defects. For some conditions, it requires the same gene come from both parents to show up in the offspring. If the parents share genes the baby is likely to get a “double dose” of the defective gene.
Hemophilia, which requires overlapping genes, led to the deaths of many European monarchs who shared the the defective gene.
That was what I was getting at…:
Wait, there are upsides to marrying your cousin? 