Directed Graphs in Inheritance
When I talked about maternal haplogroups the other day, I touched on how this and the paternal haplogroup map onto your inheritance tree. Some of the details of how this works can be a little counterintuitive. As a result, people often misunderstand terms like “Mitochondrial Eve”. I just found this post by Igor Ostrovsky which does a good job of explaining how it works. Go check it out.