The aversion often didn’t work for royalty, since they weren’t raised with their siblings.
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Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoTake it up with three separate professors at my uni and several scholarly sources. Though I warn you, they are either dead or capable of screaming far louder and more eloquently than you. Here’s a Wikipedia article
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 1 month ago
hypothesis
Therefore not proven
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
That article doesn’t support your argument. The effect isn’t based on relation but on being raised together before the age of 6.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Well yeah, but that is still “biologically ingrained to avoid incest”, since being raised separately and then reintroduced as adults is an edge case. The effect is biological even if what it’s directly testing for isn’t genetics.
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, your arguments about cultural and learned behavior not biologically ingrained Behavior.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
From the above linked article:
And lots of other examples across different cultures that would be consistent with this being an instinctual reaction of humans, rather than a cultural thing that is taught.