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From: sadoyama@pavepaws.berkeley.edu (Eric J Sadoyama)
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Subject: Re: If sodomy, why not incest?
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Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 16:35:54 EDT
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In article <2588@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> stever@mit-eddie.UUCP (Stephen Robbins) writes:
>              There are certain genetic considerations between MOTOS
>incest, but other than that, I don't consider it my place to dictate
>what people can and can't do.

I've heard this reasoning many times, but never any proof or evidence
for it. How is this any different, genetically, from the situation in
herds, or other animal living groups, where the dominant male mates with
*all* the females in the group, be they related or not? 

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