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The Role and Significance of Consanguinity as a Demographic Variable

1994/09/01 by A.H. Bittles · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Mathematics · #Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences #Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research #Consanguinity #Demography #Variable (mathematics) #Geography #Biology #Genetics #Sociology #Mathematics

paper · doi:10.2307/2137601

openalex publication_date 1994/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/19

Abstract

The predominant western stereotype of inbreeding is of a poor and remote community, a large proportion of whose inhabitants suffer from obscure physical disorders and exhibit obvious symptoms of mental subnormality. In most instances this characterization is almost mythic, although isolated, inbred communities occasionally have been documented...

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