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Charles Darwin (pretty intelligent European) married his first cousin.


He did. And we have lines of inbred mice we use for experiments. That doesn't change the fact that inbreeding tends to be bad.

(And Arabs /are/ by and large less intelligent than Europeans. That's quite unfortunate for them, for the Arab countries, and -- given the current migration patterns -- for the Europeans. Inbreeding is one of the preventable reasons for their general lower intelligence. Infectious diseases is another. Lack of certain micronutrients a third. The latter two are fixed by moving to Europe, the former not so much.)




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