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Anon meets a girl at a wedding (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Earliest common ancestor is great-grandparent. With same number intermediaries for both people.

n^th cousin is how many "g's" in the title of the earliest common ancestor. Grandparent == one "g" = first cousin. Two gs, second cousin, etc.

"Removed" is the offset value, or the difference between how many intermediaries between the two parties and their earliest common ancestor.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Well yes, but 'second cousin' with no qualifiers implies we're talking about zero times removed. The more salient point I was trying to make was that yes, second cousins share blood