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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1931
Page
14
The text discusses evolving views on consanguineous marriages and suggests possible shifts toward broader acceptance. It cites 22 years of experiments by Dr. Helen Dean King at the Wistar Institute, claiming findings that challenge long held beliefs about inbreeding and human genetics.
The piece explains Dr. King’s inbred rat lines showing 80 generations with no clear harm and cites that inbreeding can reveal hidden defects. It claims that controlled cousin mating might improve human traits and suggests societal shifts toward pedigree-based marriage to advance superior endowments.
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