Genetic Relationship

Genetic relationship may refer to:

  • Genetic distance, in genetics
  • Genetic relationship (linguistics), in language

Famous quotes containing the words genetic and/or relationship:

    “We cannot think of a legitimate argument why ... whites and blacks need be affected by the knowledge that an aggregate difference in measured intelligence is genetic instead of environmental.... Given a chance, each clan ... will encounter the world with confidence in its own worth and, most importantly, will be unconcerned about comparing its accomplishments line-by-line with those of any other clan. This is wise ethnocentricism.”
    —Richard Herrnstein (1930–1994)

    “Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)