When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Kinship - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship

    While normal kin-terms discussed above denote a relationship between two entities (e.g. the word 'sister' denotes the relationship between the speaker or some other entity and another feminine entity who shares the parents of the former), trirelational kin-terms—also known as triangular, triadic, ternary, and shared kin-terms—denote a ...

  3. Consanguine marriage - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consanguine_marriage

    In a clinical sense, marriage between two family members who are second cousins or closer qualifies as consanguineous marriage. This is based on the gene copies their offspring may receive. [ 1 ] Though these unions are still prevalent in some communities, as seen across the Greater Middle East region, many other populations have seen a great ...

  4. Coefficient of relationship - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_relationship

    The coefficient of relationship is a measure of the degree of consanguinity (or biological relationship) between two individuals. The term coefficient of relationship was defined by Sewall Wright in 1922, and was derived from his definition of the coefficient of inbreeding of 1921. The measure is most commonly used in genetics and genealogy.

  5. Kinship terminology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship_terminology

    Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...

  6. Interpersonal relationship - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_relationship

    In social psychology, an interpersonal relation (or interpersonal relationship) describes a social association, connection, or affiliation between two or more persons. It overlaps significantly with the concept of social relations, which are the fundamental unit of analysis within the social sciences. Relations vary in degrees of intimacy, self ...

  7. Genealogy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy

    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. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of ...

  8. Family tree - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree

    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.

  9. Human bonding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_bonding

    Human bonding is the process of development of a close interpersonal relationship between two or more people.It most commonly takes place between family members or friends, [1] but can also develop among groups, such as sporting teams and whenever people spend time together.