pedigree collapse
Meanings
noun
- The phenomenon in which ancestral inbreeding causes the number of a descendant’s distinct ancestors to be smaller than that predicted by a binary tree (∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ 2ⁱ, where n represents the number of generations).
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Etymology
Coined by Robert C. Gunderson.
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