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Subject: Re: [TMG] OT
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:01:42 EST


Like many other things it all has all to do with definition. By most
definitions a cousin is the child of one of your parent's siblings. I once
stepped back and looked at "kinship" and came to some preliminary
conclusions. If one defined different levels of "kinship" as " different
degrees of access to the same gene pool, it is clear that so called double
cousins have exactly the same access as siblings. That is siblings have
access to the same combined gene pools of their mothers and fathers. It
doesn't mean they are the same only that it is possible that they could be.
Double cousins are the same as siblings as each of them have access to the
combined gene pool of their parents but the parents of each of the "double
cousins" have exactly the same gene pool probablities, so by this definition
of kinship, siblings and double cousins are alike in kinship.

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