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history repeats itself once again
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
One related to this I always wondered.
A man and woman marry, they grow old, the woman dies.
The man, marries a new.hotmyoung wife, 40 years his junior.
The man dies.
The woman remarries, again, a much younger man.
She dies, the man remarries.
And so on.
What is the family dynamic here? Is it all one long chain of the same couple?
What if we have kids involved. Not like, imbreeding, but the same process starting a generation removed. Are the many times removed couples step parents or step inlaws or anything to the generstion down couples?
I think a couple is between 2 people, so if one of them leaves or dies it's a completely different couple.
However, what about a polycule? is it the same polycule if everyone who was there at first leaves?