Consanguinity (from Latin consanguinitas 'blood relationship') is the characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common...

{1}{2}}\right)^{4}} ; their consanguinity is one-eighth. For each additional removal of the cousin relationship, consanguinity is reduced by half, as the...

Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family is an 1871 book written by Lewis Henry Morgan (1818 - 1881) and published by the Smithsonian...

world to do so. The laws of many jurisdictions set out the degree of consanguinity prohibited among sexual relations and marriage parties. Supporters of...

The coefficient of relationship is a measure of the degree of consanguinity (or biological relationship) between two individuals. The term coefficient...

development. In a social perspective, the observed inclination to practice consanguinity has been due to advantages to social and financial status. Upholding...

recessive traits resulting from incestuous sexual relationships and consanguinity. Animals avoid inbreeding only rarely. Inbreeding results in homozygosity...

In law, a prohibited degree of kinship refers to a degree of consanguinity (blood relatedness), or sometimes affinity (relation by marriage or sexual...

kinship by adoption or a step relationship. Unlike blood relationships (consanguinity), which may have genetic consequences, affinity is essentially a social...

initial request in 1149 for an annulment of the marriage on grounds of consanguinity was rejected by Pope Eugene III. In 1152, after fifteen years of marriage...