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And it's by looking at the pattern of genetic variation, the pattern of these markers in people all over the world, and assessing the relative ages when they occurred throughout our history, that we've been able to construct a family tree for everybody alive today.

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In fact, high-school athletes are three times more likely to sustain catastrophic injuries relative even to their college-age peers, and it takes them longer to return to a symptom-free baseline.

It's like a death of a relative, or a cyclone, or a hurricane, or an earthquake.

Ultrasound generates more biopsies that are unnecessary relative to other technologies, so it's not widely used.

A long-distance relative offers to teach her ninth- and tenth-grade curricula during summer vacations.

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