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Further, if those rates are similar across time and roughly evenly distributed among populations, it means that carefully-researched family tree your aunt (or w

Further, if those rates are similar across time and roughly evenly distributed among populations, it means that carefully-researched family tree your aunt (or whoever) has spent so much time working on gets unreliable (as far as biological parentage) fast, the more generations you go back. "Look, I'm distantly related to [famous person]!" Well... maybe.

barry-cotter 5y ago
> Further, if those rates are similar across time and roughly evenly distributed among populations They’re not. Rates of extra paternity events vary a lot by social class[1]. I'd be shocked if that wasn’t true for different ethnic groups. [1] A Historical-Genetic Reconstruction of Human Extra-Pair Paternity Highlights • Combining genetic and genealogical data illuminates our ancestors’ sexual behavior • Gene-genealogy mismatches imply extra-pair paternity (EPP) • Historical EPP rates were low overall (∼1%) but varied depending on social context • EPP rates were highest (∼6%) among urban families with low socioeconomic status https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982219313053 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...