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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m unclear on the concept of a second cousin. I’m also unclear on the how she would be a cousin on both sides.

  Wait…was Einstein’s family tree shaped like a telephone pole?

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    cousin chart

    Albert’s mother’s parents were Elsa’s grandparents, and his father’s grandparents were Elsa’s great grandparents.

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  • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is how you produce the greatest minds, clearly.

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    • BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, honestly, it actually might be. It’s certainly how evolution did it. We’re basically programmed to have genetic drifts if the population gets too low, making more likely for the reproducing population to find a new niche. So while it would be hilariously immoral, and also probably produce A LOT more of the worst minds, you produce enough genetic freaks and eventually one of em is gonna be a megagenius

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    dude all of us unclear on the concept of second cousin. like, we were digging through my family history and found out one of my great something grandfathers married his fifth? cousin. like, they didn’t even find out until the wedding and the grandparents were “meeting” and were like “aren’t we second cousins or something” but in a town of 5,000 your picks are limited.

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