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With enough children you can. It's an imperfect analogy since in genetics there are two parents, but if there are 4 or 5 children, then you can make inferences
by mmanfrin 10y ago
With enough children you can. It's an imperfect analogy since in genetics there are two parents, but if there are 4 or 5 children, then you can make inferences as to the probably hair color of a parent.
- danieltillett 10y agoIf you have enough offspring you can infer the likely allele distribution in the parents, but not from two children. If you could it would make genetics so much easier to study.
- mmanfrin 10y agoThere are many branches of Indo-european languages. Backtracing to Proto-Indo-European thankfully has many branches -- the problem is in finding the right cognates.