Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) - An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Edgar Schuster;Francis Galton
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TABLE V.--NUMBER OF KINSFOLK IN ONE HUNDRED FAMILIES WHO SURVIVED CHILDHOOD. ______________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | Generic | Specific | Number of | Specific | Number of | | Kinships. | Kinships. | Persons. | Kinships. | Persons. | |_______________|_______________|___________|______________|___________| | | | | | | |Brothers and | _bro_ | 206 | _si_ | 207 | | sisters | | | | | |_______________|_______________|___________|______________|___________| | | | | | | |Uncles and | _fa bro_ | 228 | _fa si_ | 207 | | aunts | _me bro_ | 219 | _me si_ | 238 | |_______________|_______________|___________|______________|___________| | | | | | | | | Mean | 224 | Mean | 223 | |_______________|_______________|___________|______________|___________| | | | | | | |First cousins, | _fa bro son_ | 265 | _fa bro da_ | 302 | | male and | _fa si son_ | 184 | _fa si da_ | 208 | | female | _me bro son_ | 236 | _me bro da_ | 266 | | | _me si son_ | 237 | _me si da_ | 246 | |_______________|_______________|___________|______________|___________| It may seem at first sight surprising that a brother and a sister should each have the same average number of brothers. It puzzled me until I had thought the matter out, and when the results were published in "Nature," it also seems to have puzzled an able |
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