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Consanguineous Marriage and Human Evolution
2010-09-23
Abstract excerpt
Mate choice among early human groups and in many historical populations was subject to both demographic and social constraints, ensuring that most unions were between couples who had coinherited substantial proportions of their genomes from common ancestors. Even in populations in which close consanguineous marriage was proscribed, community endogamy would have been sufficient to ensure high levels of homozygosity...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 98da90fd-460b-56f8-aacd-ba68caa3cdf3
- DOI
- 10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.105051