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UKconsanguineous
/kɒnsɐŋɡwˈaɪniəs/
/kɑːnsɐŋɡwˈaɪniəs/
Examples
1. Consanguineous matings: now you laugh, but in fact consanguinity has been something that has been favored in many societies, and in Britain, particularly amongst the upper class in Britain in 1900, marriage or first cousins was quite common, but not as common as he observed.
2. Darwin, of course, spent time studying the effects of crossbreeding and inbreeding in plants and animals, noting that consanguineous pairs often resulted in weaker and sickly descendants.
3. At the time the scientific community could only speculate that consanguineous marriage, meaning a marriage between people who are closely related, could result in things like deafness, or blindness, but what if it could result in children being very sickly, or even dying young?
4. So, on the basis of that in the early 1900's, Garrett was able to show only a few years after the rediscovery of Mendel's work that this property of recessive traits, enrichment in the offspring of consanguineous marriages, was a clear demonstration of Mendelian inheritance.
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