An essential guide to this major contemporary issue, Consanguinity in Context is a uniquely
comprehensive account of intra-familial marriage. Detailed information on past and present …

Forbidden Relatives challenges the belief--widely held in the United States--that legislation
against marriage between first cousins is based on a biological risk to offspring. In fact, its …

In 1951, the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was teaching in Parma when a student--a
priest named Antonio Moroni--told him about rich church records of demography and …

Using a computerized genealogical database, inbreeding coefficients were calculated for a
sample of 435777 Utah Mormons. The population was divided into ten ten‐year birth cohorts …

Background: The study is part of a research project on the marital structure of mountain
populations from the Eastern Italian Alps. Little is known about marriage patterns in this …

This paper presents a new approach to include tie line constraints in multiarea economic
dispatch problems by using evolutionary programming (EP). The proposed method always …

Names: Iacono, Francesco, author. Title: The archaeology of late Bronze Age interaction and
mobility at the gates of Europe: people, things and networks around the southern Adriatic …

Pakistan has the highest rates of consanguinity in the world, with nearly two‐thirds marrying
cousins. To understand this pattern, we adopt the theoretical framework of intensive and …

Die durchschnittliche Konsanguinität (α) von 20 großen regionalen oder nationalen
Stichproben von römisch-katholischen Dispensen oder Staatsarchiven zeigt ein stark …

Empirical estimates of the global prevalence of consanguineous marriage in contemporary
societies Page 1 Please do not remove this page Empirical estimates of the global …