• Hoimo@ani.social
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    Yeah, I can see that.

    But seriously, how much “incest” does the average family tree really have? And I’m drawing the line at great-grandparents, anything less than that is unrelated imo.

    Royals were doing multiple generations of first-degree incest, that’s on a completely different level from normal people.

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        Like I said, royals aren’t normal people. See the fabled family tree of the Ptolemaic dynasty:

        But that only works if you have a family fortune to protect. Normal people would rather spread their children around and increase their chances of survival.

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          Holy shit!

          So for example: Cleopatra II was first married to Ptolemy VI, her brother, and had a daughter Cleopatra III. Then when Ptolemy VI died Cleopatra II was married to Ptolemy VIII, her other brother. Ptolemy VIII also took his niece Cleopatra III as his second wife.