Talk:Degree of relationship

merge, and fix mistakes
Firstly, this is an inferior cfork of the Consanguinity article.

Secondly, explaining "first-degree relatives" as sharing "50 percent of their genes with a particular individual in a family" is so dumbed-down to do more harm than good. The mistake of invoking the difficult concept of gene instead of simply saying genome would be easy enough to fix, but the fact is that 99.5% of "genes" are shared between even the most unrelated people on the face of the earth. To explain these concepts, one absolutely needs to have a basic grasp of the effect of pedigree collapse. --dab (𒁳) 12:34, 5 January 2012 (UTC)