relatedness
Example Sentences
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The notion of genetic relatedness — IVF kind of broke that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
The associated people seem to have been a large, well-connected community, where genetic relatedness played a significant role in the mortuary ritual.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024
Perhaps chastened by past criticisms, geneticists are now quick to concede that biological relatedness is only one element of kinship.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
Over hundreds of millions of years, gene sequences mutate so much that any signal about the relatedness of different lineages is washed out.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2023
How then should we understand the biological relatedness of Sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans?
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
