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Family tree showing the relationship of each person to the orange person, including cousins and gene share. A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms.
The family tree of Louis III, Duke of Württemberg (ruled 1568–1593) The family tree of "the Landas", a 17th-century family [1]. Genealogy (from Ancient Greek γενεαλογία (genealogía) 'the making of a pedigree') [2] is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.
The word is found in the sense of "line of teachers", genealogy and family tree in theShatapatha Brahmana, as well as in Sanskrit grammar text Ashtadhyayi by Pāṇini. [3] A related genre of Indic literature is the Charita, which focuses on individual hagiographies. [4] Vaṃśam appears in other Indic languages in derivative forms, such as ...
Family Tree, an American film directed by Duane Clark; Family Tree, a 2003 short film with music by Michael A. Levine; Family Tree, a French film directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
Cladogram (family tree) of a biological group. The last common ancestor is the vertical line stem at the bottom. The blue and orange subgroups are clades; each shows its common ancestor stem at the bottom of the subgroup branch.
The usual noun and adjective in English is patronymic, but as a noun this exists in free variation alongside patronym. [a] The first part of the word patronym comes from Greek πατήρ patēr 'father' (GEN πατρός patros whence the combining form πατρο- patro-); [3] the second part comes from Greek ὄνυμα onyma, a variant form of ὄνομα onoma 'name'. [4]
The academic literature suggests that the family is regarded as the main foundation of Muslim society and culture; the family structure and nature of the relationship between family members are influenced by the Islamic religion. [9] Marriage in Saudi culture means the union of two families, not just two individuals. [10]
Academic genealogy may influence research results in areas of active research. Hirshman et al. examined a controversial medical question, the value of maximal surgery for high grade glioma, and demonstrated that a physician's medical academic genealogy can affect his or her findings and approaches to treatment.