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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure all bloodlines have circles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I suppose if you go backwards your family tree has circles. But nowadays incest isn't particularly common is it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Most cultures frown uppn it but cousin marriage is very common is some parts of the world. There is a great wikipedia article on Incest.

But I was really talking about the former. The likelihood that not a single crossing has happened since the beginning of like is very small.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fair, it'll be a bit of a whacky tree. But definitely not a line