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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First cousin marriages are still legal in half of the US. Such marriages lead to an increase of birth defects from 3-4% of all births to 4-7% of all births, the same increased risk carried if the mother is AMA.  I'm not advocating for it. It feels incestuous to me. But it's not intrinsically evil. 80% of all marriages/mating in human history have been between 2nd cousins or closer. Historically, there haven't been enough humans around throughout most of history, and we haven't been mobile enough to do much more than that. 
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It's not the one-off first cousins getting married that is so bad.  It's when families CONTINUALLY marry their 1st cousins.  Each time it happens, the risk of defects goes up.  Just look at the amount of disabilities afflicting the Pakistani population in the UK compared to non-Pakistanis.  It's very common in pakistani families for a couple's parents, grandparents, greatparents, and so on, to all have been first cousin marriages.

In Pakistan, over 80% of married couples are 1st cousins.  Chances are, their parents and their parents' parents were also first cousins.  Look at the high rate of thalassaemia in Pakistan.

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/21/city/lahore/marrying-a-cousin-think-twice/

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