MatureDJ
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I was reading this, and it got me interested:
Go ahead, marry your cousin—it's not that bad for your future kids
Marrying your first cousin, while illegal in many states, is not the worst thing you could do. But the situation gets hairy (read: birth defects) if you trace the pattern through a family's genealogy.
www.popsci.com
Albert Einstein and his second wife (and first cousin), Elsa Einstein, took family marriage to a new level. They were related through both maternal and paternal lineages: Their mothers were sisters and their fathers were first cousins.