What is "relatedness"

Usage examples of "relatedness".

For convenience we use an index of relatedness, which expresses the chance of a gene being shared between two relatives.

A and B via a particular common ancestor, calculate that part of their relatedness for which that ancestor is responsible.

Therefore, having worked out the relatedness between A and B due to any one of the ancestors, all you have to do in practice is to multiply by the number of ancestors.

Uncles and aunts, nephews and nieces, grandparents and grandchildren, and half brothers and half sisters, are intermediate with a relatedness of 3.

In real life such certain knowledge is occasionally possible, but more usually the relatedness can only be estimated as an average number.

On the basis of his knowledge of their reproductive habits, he has estimated the average relatedness between individuals in a typical lion pride.

If the facts of lion life are as Bertram says, and, just as important, if they have been like that for a large number of generations, then we may expect that natural selection will have favoured a degree of altruism appropriate to the average degree of relatedness in a typical pride.

We therefore must expect individual selfishness in nature, to an extent greater than would be predicted by considerations of genetic relatedness alone.

Parents care more for their children than children do for their parents, although the genetic relationship is symmetrical, and certainty of relatedness is just as great both ways.

It is too small and weak to bully its parents physically, but it uses every psychological weapon at its disposal: lying, cheating, deceiving, exploiting, right up to the point where it starts to penalize its relatives more than its genetic relatedness to them should allow.

He hauled in a half-parsec of immaterial relatedness and began ineptly to experiment.

People who are characterised by these qualities may at times use others to gratify their own needs, but the tendency occurs in the broader context of sensitive interpersonal relatedness rather than as a pervasive style of dealing with other people.

Games are a way of using time for people who cannot bear the stroking starvation of withdrawal and yet whose not ok position makes the ultimate form of relatedness, intimacy, impossible.

We must keep in mind that the Child needs the security provided by relatedness, consistency, stroking, recognition, approval, and support.

Yet the fact is that the search for these objective principles and the longing for relatedness is a universal reality.