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pedigree collapse

noun

Etymology

Coined by Robert C. Gunderson.

Definitions

  1. The phenomenon in which ancestral inbreeding causes the number of a descendant’s distinct…

    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).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pedigree collapse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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