Exploring Family Trees/Pedigree Collapse – Interactive D3 visualization

What it does

You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. The width of the green region represents an estimate of the maximum number of ancestors for in each generation back. This region is referred to as the "ancestor cone", based on this note by Wait But Why's Tim Urban. For hundreds of years back in time, the cone appears to be a line here because it is dwarfed by the world population. However, eventually the doubling growth takes over and the number of ancestors begins to be noticeable relative to the world population. In this case, we assume a value of 25 years per generation, and so every 25 years back in time, the number of ancestors at each…from learnforeverlearn.com

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