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  2. Consanguinity - Wikipedia

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    Consanguinity (from Latin consanguinitas 'blood relationship') is the characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common ancestor. Many jurisdictions have laws prohibiting people who are closely related by blood from marrying or having sexual relations with each other.

  3. Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family

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    [2] [3] In the book Morgan argues that all human societies share a basic set of principles for social organization along kinship lines, based on the principles of consanguinity (kinship by blood) and affinity (kinship by marriage). At the same time, he presented a sophisticated schema of social evolution based upon the relationship terms, the ...

  4. Kinship terminology - Wikipedia

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    Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...

  5. Coefficient of relationship - Wikipedia

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    The coefficient of relationship is a measure of the degree of consanguinity (or biological relationship) between two individuals. The term coefficient of relationship was defined by Sewall Wright in 1922, and was derived from his definition of the coefficient of inbreeding of 1921. The measure is most commonly used in genetics and genealogy.

  6. Affinity (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    Canon 109 of the Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church provides that affinity is an impediment to the marriage of a couple, and is a relationship which "arises from a valid marriage, even if not consummated, and exists between a man and the blood relatives of the woman and between the woman and the blood relatives of the man."

  7. Kinship - Wikipedia

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    The question of whether kinship is a privileged system and if so, why, remains without a satisfactory answer. If it is privileged because of its relationship to the functional prerequisites imposed by the nature of physical kinship, this remains to be spelled out in even the most elementary detail. (Schneider 1984, 163)

  8. This Simple Test Could Predict Heart Attack and Stroke Risk ...

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    Researchers looked at markers in the blood and found these results. This Simple Test Could Predict Heart Attack and Stroke Risk 30 Years in Advance, Says Huge New Study Skip to main content

  9. Collateral (kinship) - Wikipedia

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    Collateral is a term used in kinship to describe kin, or lines of kin, that are not in a direct line of descent from an individual. [1] Examples of collateral relatives include siblings of parents or grandparents and their descendants (uncles, aunts, and cousins). [2]