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[OngBonga]

Does banging your cousins give the offspring a genetic disadvantage?

Does not banging your cousin mean your offspring are not going to bang their cousins?

Sure, the offspring of sisterfuckers will have less reproductive success on average, but that's not weeding out the incest gene, because there is no incest gene.

[Poopadoop]

there is no incest gene.

If this is true, then there's also no no-incest gene. So what stops people from banging the first hot person they come across, even if it's a family member? And why is the incest taboo universal? Did all the world's cultures just happen to agree on an evolutionarily advantageous policy by chance?

[CoccoBill]

Does not banging your cousin mean your offspring are not going to bang their cousins?

Sure, the offspring of sisterfuckers will have less reproductive success on average, but that's not weeding out the incest gene, because there is no incest gene.

There's basically no "gene for" anything. It's far more complex than that and there's usually several genes at play for any social or physical trait. If a cousin-banger has offspring, they are a bit more likely to be cousin-bangers too. If a non-cousin-banger has offspring, their likelihood of cousin-banging is on average what's neutral/normal in the gene pool. The differences in likelihood or the likelihood of even passing the gene(s) on are probably very small, but over thousands of generations they can become dominant in the population.

[OngBonga]

If a cousin-banger has offspring, they are a bit more likely to be cousin-bangers too.

This seems highly contentious.

[CoccoBill]

This seems highly contentious.

https://modminds.pages.roanoke.edu/2...brother-gross/

Seems like the case is not 100% settled, as in more research needed, but there's no real good competing theories.