Why Would a Mechanism Have Evolved to Reduce Sexual Feelings

question 125

Multiple Choice

Why would a mechanism have evolved to reduce sexual feelings between brothers and sisters?

• A) Brothers and sisters typically do not get along, so they would not make good mates.
• B) Brothers and sisters have personalities too similar for them to be attracted to one another.
• C) Mating between brothers and sisters might lead to a child possessing harmful recessive genes.
• D) Mating between brothers and sisters results in the decreased propagation of their parents' genes.

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