Females are always equally related to their sons, but with increasing levels of inbreeding they become more related to their daughters.
If there was anything to that six-degrees-of-separation folderol, she must have been equally related to the entire population of the continent.
Specifically, two actors are deemed regularly equivalent if they are equally related to equivalent others.
Indeed, frogs and humans are exactly equally related to fishes through this common ancestor (recall that two cousins are equally related to a third, more distant relative).
Eurasians are equally related to Neanderthals, with 1 4% of their genomes descending from them.
First, recall from Fig. 3 that all siblings are equally related to their shared cousins.
The scientifically accurate interpretation is the seal is equally related to the horse and whale.
This particular phylogenetic hypothesis shows birds, crocodiles, lizards, and snakes to all be equally related to turtles (a detail that remains a subject of debate) and birds and all "reptiles" to be equally related to frogs (which is well accepted).
For example, in Fig. 3a, both the reader and his or her sibling are equally related to both cousins.
Fig. 2 Is the seal more closely related to the horse, the whale, or equally related to both?
Because they share a common ancestor as amniotes, birds, cats, lizards, and humans are all equally related to frogs.
