Monday, September 20, 2010

Convoluted Relations

This graphic isn't the easiest to read - there are certainly prettier ones out there - but if you can figure the thing out, it is fairly informative.  Generations, clearly, are the rows, while columns more or less illustrate degree of relatedness.  For some reason, female relatives in the direct line are circles.  What's most interesting - aside from clarifying that whole "first-cousin-twice-removed" issue - is that the percentage of genetic relatedness is included in red.  Interesting that those things match up.