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Post by ratrace on Jan 16, 2006 13:14:27 GMT -5
I was thinking in places like iceland there must of been alot of incest.is there a way of known through dna?
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Post by Ilmatar on Jan 16, 2006 13:44:28 GMT -5
Is your question about incest or inbreeding ? Word incest implies that the sexual relations have taken place between two persons considered to closely kinned by society, while as inbreeding is a much more "technical" term. Icelandic wouldn't be any more incestous than any other population in Western Europe, since they have shared the norm on who is accepted to mate with whom the first settlers arrived (parents, their siblings and siblings are definitely off limits, first-cousin marriages only good for keeping the family fortune together). They probably are more inbred though, because the small and recent founding population. Certain genetic diseases found esclusively or in higher than average percentages among a group of people may indicate inbreeding.
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Post by ratrace on Jan 16, 2006 13:47:55 GMT -5
Ok i ment inbreeding.What happens when people inbreed do genes change faster?
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Post by stella22 on Jan 16, 2006 18:31:38 GMT -5
Ratrace, you have bad gene b (recessif) and your sister has bad gene b, but it matter none. You two fine because you got Bb which is okay because B is okay. Now you go and have baby with sister and baby get bad gene bb  - now baby has funky looking face, strange skeleton, and backwards organs. |
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Post by ratrace on Jan 17, 2006 14:52:59 GMT -5
Ratrace, you have bad gene b (recessif) and your sister has bad gene b, but it matter none. You two fine because you got Bb which is okay because B is okay. Now you go and have baby with sister and baby get bad gene bb - now baby has funky looking face, strange skeleton, and backwards organs. commen sense iceland isolated island so my question isnt retard but you are. you want me to unzip stella? you been hounding my nuts for a while now |
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Post by stella22 on Jan 17, 2006 16:48:03 GMT -5
It was just a hypothetical example. I wasn't actually referring to you or your sister. BTW, I haven't been 'hounding your nuts'. Honestly, I don't even remember where else you've posted. If you want to learn more, read up here.
[ftp]http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/relevance/IIIA1Inbreeding.shtml[/ftp]
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Post by ratrace on Jan 18, 2006 5:34:52 GMT -5
It was just a hypothetical example. I wasn\'t actually referring to you or your sister. BTW, I haven\'t been \'hounding your nuts\'. Honestly, I don\'t even remember where else you\'ve posted. If you want to learn more, read up here. [ftp]http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/relevance/IIIA1Inbreeding.shtml[/ftp] sorry stella. |
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Post by nymos on Jan 18, 2006 18:27:22 GMT -5
 lmao @ "hounding my nuts" |
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- now baby has funky looking face, strange skeleton, and backwards organs. 
lmao @ "hounding my nuts"