Re: Genetic fractions

2003-07-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Julia Thompson wrote: For example, how close I am to you? I imagine we might have a common ancestral by 1600 or so. Most of my ancestors at that point were in the British Isles. to the best of my knowledge. A few were in France. And those are the best candidates: France once

Re: Genetic fractions

2003-07-29 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: For example, how close I am to you? I imagine we might have a common ancestral by 1600 or so. Most of my ancestors at that point were in the British Isles. to the best of my knowledge. A few were in France. And those are the best

Re: Genetic fractions

2003-07-28 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: Actually, it's him, not her, and the two that make my 126/128 instead of 128/128 are ancestors of his. Oh, how I hate the Internet! Why there's no Humanity Database with _all_ people that ever lived registered in it, so that we can so

Re: Genetic fractions, was Re: The Case for a Marriage...

2003-07-27 Thread Julia Thompson
David Hobby wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: David Hobby wrote: The above would have been easier to state if we had general kinship terms based on degrees of genetic relatedness. Sibling, parent and child are all halves. Grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew,

Re: Genetic fractions, was Re: The Case for a Marriage...

2003-07-27 Thread David Hobby
David Hobby wrote: The above would have been easier to state if we had general kinship terms based on degrees of genetic relatedness. Sibling, parent and child are all halves. Grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, half-sibling, and so on are quarters. And

Re: Genetic fractions, was Re: The Case for a Marriage...

2003-07-27 Thread Julia Thompson
David Hobby wrote: David Hobby wrote: The above would have been easier to state if we had general kinship terms based on degrees of genetic relatedness. Sibling, parent and child are all halves. Grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, half-sibling, and

Genetic fractions, was Re: The Case for a Marriage...

2003-07-26 Thread David Hobby
Julia Thompson wrote: David Hobby wrote: The above would have been easier to state if we had general kinship terms based on degrees of genetic relatedness. Sibling, parent and child are all halves. Grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, half-sibling, and so on are