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Goodbye, anemia.
Hello, genetic diversity.
Icelanders have a peculiar problem: they are descended from five Viking men and four Irish women (how does that math figure?)
Because of this, the most genetically homogeneous nation’s government have created a genetic database to help fight inbreeding.
Now a group of University of Iceland in Reykjavík students have taken it a step further and created an Android app to help end cousins from dating. NBC News reports:
When you tap phones with someone who has the app, it brings up an alert if the owners of the two phones share a grandparent. (Of course, if you don’t already know who you share a grandparent with, incest may be the least of your problems, but the team says it is looking into functionality for spotting common great grandparents, too.)
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The app, called Sifjaspellsspillir translates to “Incest Destroyer.”
An iPhone counterpart is currently in production.
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