Hindu Cousin Marriages

First cousin marriages and X-heterosis in women.

The study of X-heterosis in women, in the four types of first cousin marriages, was carried out on 516 families in sample population of Punjab, Pakistan. Secondary sex ratio in X-outbrcd subsets is higher than in X-inbreds. Tertiary sex ratio shows higher postnatal male deaths in X-outbreds than in Xinbreds. Prenatal loss (stillbirths + abortions), male stillbirths in particular, is higher in X...

Variations in Types of First-Cousin Marriages over a Two-Generation Period among Arabs in Israel

The consanguineous marriage phenomenon, particularly the first-cousin marriage type, had been common among different Arab societies and it was even regarded as integral to their culture. The purpose of our study was to determine the prevalence and trends of first-cousin marriage types over a period of two generations among Arab society in Israel. A specially designed questionnaire was used to s...

Cousin Marriage

It is a great honour to be invited to contribute a lecture to this long-established series* founded to commemorate a very eminent physician of the Bristol Medical School an a member of a family distinguished for services to medicine and to the City over man/ years. I have also seen with particular pleasure that the first Long Fox lecture ^ given by John Beddoe, a pioneer of British anthropology...

Gravity’s Scalar Cousin

The “dilaton”, the Goldstone boson of spontaneously broken conformal field theories (in flat spacetime), is argued to provide a surprisingly provocative scalar analog of gravity. Many precise parallels and contrasts are drawn. In particular, the Equivalence Principle, the Cosmological Constant Problem, and the tension between them is shown to be closely replicated. Also, there is a striking tra...

Graphene and Cousin Systems