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  2. Incest in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Because of intoxication, Lot "perceived not" when his first-born daughter, and the following night his younger daughter, lay with him. (Genesis 19:32–35) The two children born were directly Lot's sons and indirectly his grandsons, being his daughters' sons. Likewise, their sons were also half-brothers (between them and with their mothers ...

  3. Inbreeding - Wikipedia

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    Inbreeding is also used to reveal deleterious recessive alleles, which can then be eliminated through assortative breeding or through culling. In plant breeding, inbred lines are used as stocks for the creation of hybrid lines to make use of the effects of heterosis. Inbreeding in plants also occurs naturally in the form of self-pollination.

  4. Colt clan incest case - Wikipedia

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    Children and adults had regularly engaged in sexual activities which conceived children, some with genetic deformities. Most of the children had fungal infections . In order to hide the pregnancies, the girls would sometimes miscarry on the farm, or fatherhood was attributed to outsiders from outside Australia coming to the country for work or ...

  5. Consanguine marriage - Wikipedia

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    Globally, 8.5% of children have consanguineous (i.e. coefficient of relationship r = 3.125% or higher) parents, and 20% of the human population live in communities practicing endogamy. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Theories on the developments of consanguineous marriage as a taboo can be supported as being both a social and a biological development.

  6. Incest in folklore and mythology - Wikipedia

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    She looked so young and beautiful from head to foot, glistening with the oil she had used to anoint her body, and wearing beads of many kinds.' There she was lying on his sleeping place. So when her son came and entered the hut his eye lit up at the thought that perhaps the girl who had made him promises had really come.

  7. The story even includes a pun about a sparrow, which served as a euphemism for female genitals. The story, which predates the Grimms' by nearly two centuries, actually uses the phrase "the sauce of Love." The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women.

  8. 5 Phrases a Child Psychologist Is Begging Parents and ...

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    “Validate feelings first and listen so kids, and especially teens, can express and feel their emotions. It’s easier to move through a highly-charged situation when you feel someone understands ...

  9. Genetic purging - Wikipedia

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    Genetic purging is the increased pressure of natural selection against deleterious alleles prompted by inbreeding. [1]Purging occurs because deleterious alleles tend to be recessive, which means that they only express all their harmful effects when they are present in the two copies of the individual (i.e., in homozygosis).