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Subject: Re: [TMG] Off Topic - General Genealogy Questions
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:01:41 EDT
I stand to offer a kinship statement. I believe (and all of this is opinion),
that kinship is determined by the probabilities associated with exposure to a
common gene pool. That is to say that a brother and his brother may not
actually inherit exactly the same combination of genes from their common
parents, but they were exposed, if that is a good word, to the same identical
gene pool. And that is what makes them brother and sister. One could, I
believe, say that "double cousins" are more like brother and sister in their
kinship than like normal first cousins as they also have been exposed to only
the same identical gene pool, albeit through their grandparents instead of
their parents. Food for idle thought- Dale F
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