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“It's Ok, We're Not Cousins by Blood”: The Cousin Marriage Controversy in Historical Perspective

Marriage between first cousins is highly stigmatized in the West and, indeed, is illegal in 31 US states. But is the hostility to such marriage scientifically well-grounded?

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Autores principales: Paul, Diane B, Spencer, Hamish G
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19108607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060320
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spelling pubmed-26059222008-12-22 “It's Ok, We're Not Cousins by Blood”: The Cousin Marriage Controversy in Historical Perspective Paul, Diane B Spencer, Hamish G PLoS Biol Historical and Philosophical Perspectives Marriage between first cousins is highly stigmatized in the West and, indeed, is illegal in 31 US states. But is the hostility to such marriage scientifically well-grounded? Public Library of Science 2008-12 2008-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2605922/ /pubmed/19108607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060320 Text en © 2008 Paul and Spencer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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“It's Ok, We're Not Cousins by Blood”: The Cousin Marriage Controversy in Historical Perspective
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title_full “It's Ok, We're Not Cousins by Blood”: The Cousin Marriage Controversy in Historical Perspective
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title_short “It's Ok, We're Not Cousins by Blood”: The Cousin Marriage Controversy in Historical Perspective
title_sort “it's ok, we're not cousins by blood”: the cousin marriage controversy in historical perspective
topic Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19108607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060320
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