Women prefer the smell of moderately related over unrelated men. And in a study of 160 years of data concerning every couple in Iceland {which is a mecca for human geneticists, given its genetic and socioeconomic homogeneity}, the highest reproductive success arose from third- and fourth-cousin marriages.
( Robert M. Sapolsky )
[ Behave: The Biology of Humans ]
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