Up until today, Cousins had enjoyed a trouble-free pre-season, with coach Damien Hardwick saying the Brownlow medallist had emerged from his shell to become a desperately needed leader at Richmond.
While massive Richmond membership numbers that were buoyed by Cousins' controversial arrival last year are way down, confidence is up at Tigerland according to Hardwick — with the former Eagle leading the way. Cousins gently felt his way back into the AFL last year, with his season ending strongly after a devastating hamstring injury in round one. Hardwick said his leadership qualities that were so revered at the Eagles — and then so missed after his sensational sacking — were beginning to come to the fore.
Before Christmas he was just trying to get his body right, get up and going. Cousins admitted to hospital. Yaniv Erlich has a soft spot for genealogy. A data scientist at Columbia University and the chief science of officer of the DNA test company MyHeritage, he describes many things in the context of family.
The paper, published in the journal Science, looks at genetic data from millions of online genealogy profiles. Among other things, the researchers were able to determine at what point in history marrying cousins went out of vogue, and the average degree of relation between married couples today. And scientific geniuses like Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin married their cousins, too. But within a century, that had changed. By , married couples were, on average, more like seventh cousins, according to Erlich.
One common sense explanation for this shift is that when transportation methods improved, bachelors and bachelorettes had access to potential partners they had once been denied by geography. This makes sense, given that before , most people stayed in place and ended up marrying someone who lived with in a six-mile radius of where they were born.
Other factors could be at play, however. Erlich says that, according to his data, many continued to marry their cousins even after the Industrial Revolution dramatically improved mobility. While proximity may be one key to romance, it seems consolidating money or power played an important part in family marriages, too. Erlich believes it was changing social norms—and the advent of this cousin marriage taboo—that finally pushed people to look beyond their village and their family.
Did he fail to properly protect himself from this latest injury? Injuries are complicated. We can never know what would have happened if Cousins rested longer after his quad injury.
As he said, Chandler has plenty of experience with quad issues. We should at least consider his assessment of the situation. We and our partners use cookies on this site to provide a better experience with content, analytics, ads and to help improve security on our site.
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