My two cents on this - I think cousin marriages are
bad. The research is pretty clear on this. The real problem is not
one event (cousin marriage) but the
repeated cycles. One photocopy might be okay but if you keep making copies of those copies slowly 'faults' start aggregating. Go to any special needs school and you will see Pakistani origin children
dominate the percentages. When the fvck is the Pakistani community going to recognize this? I often see those school vans carrying special needs children in my city and sadly too often I see Pak faces staring out from the bus. Seriously?
Symmetry is indication of healthy stock. I just see too many Pak people with ears going north and south. Nostrils bulging on one side. Eyes out of wack. Crouching posture. Too short and podgy. Too tall and skinny. I see this more amongst Mirpuri Pakistani's who I think have made cousin marriages almost a religious undertaking.
Although on this score I have seen Indian Gujrati and Banglas who take this asymmetry to altogether another level. Sikhs do very well compared to rest of Indians. These of course are generalizations I am giving or what they call in maths the '
mode'.
And producing statistics that Pak population has higher IQ then India etc is not going to help. It is my belief that cousin marriages is more recent phenomenon. In history the region that was Pakistan was too unstable and was riven with instability which would have caused much whipping of the genetic pool.
@Mugwop I am intrigued how you look. African people have been blessed with the best body frame that nature can endow. There is functional beauty to it that no other people can match. There may or may not be a IQ compensatory loss but often the physical gain is staggering.