Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: Prehistoric Humans Rarely Mated With Their Cousins
September 14, 2021
September 14, 2021
LEIPZIG, Germany, Sept. 14 (TNSRes) -- The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology issued the following news release:
At present-day, more than ten percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. While cousin-marriages are common practice in some societies, unions between close relatives are discouraged in others. In a new study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Chicago . . .
At present-day, more than ten percent of all global marriages occur among first or second cousins. While cousin-marriages are common practice in some societies, unions between close relatives are discouraged in others. In a new study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Chicago . . .