Why Do Men Rule the World? with Dr. Alice Evans
Factually! with Adam Conover
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Do You Want to Marry Your Cousin?
Incest was a way to stop people from hoarding wealth. Ause if you marry your cousin, you're keeping wealth in the family. So onlie lawer, he's marrying his cousin. They're preserving all their wealth. Edoe church stop the so tat the prohibition against, against cousin marriage. And it was not just the church saying, don't marry your cousin,. But also noble families leverage these incest prohibitions to stop their other noble families from getting wealthy by marrying additional wives and marrying their cousins.
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