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I've once heard an anthropologist claim that every human society ever had a taboo on incest. I know that there were some. Dry strict laws regarding incest in many places in the past. Were ancient peoples really so aware of the genetic effects of incest?

by /u/orko1995 in /r/AskHistorians

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