Family Tree, Albatross

Analyzing the Family Tree

FamilySearch holds one of the largest collections of linked family history data in the world. Nearly one billion records of individuals, both deceased and living, have been recorded and placed together into a common tree (“The Family Tree”). The study of this ancestral relationship graph consists of the largest family history network ever analyzed. We have found a number of interesting properti...

An AAA family tree.

Ferment in the family tree.

In 1953, botanist Jonathan D. Sauer suggested that our initial motivation to cultivate cereals was not for flour or bread, but for beer (1). The implications of this idea— that a preference for dietary ethanol, or alcohol, sparked the Neolithic Revolution (2)—are profound. No stage of human evolution has left a larger global footprint than the domestication of plants, animals, and landscapes (3...

The Albatross Communication System (ACS)

Welcome to the Albatross Communication System! We’ve labored hard to bring you this exciting, and reliable product, from our laboratory to your home and your heart. The ACS is particularly tailored to withstand large BER fluctuations, competing radio traffic, and guarantees reliability to the applications that require it. We hope that our sample file transfer application will whet your appetite...

Public skepticism: forensic psychiatry's albatross.

Many readers will recall a provocative Oliphant cartoon, which was circulated nationally and seen on the editorial pages of our newspapers during the 1976 Patricia Hearst trial. It caricatures the essence of our plight. Consider again its portrayal of a white-bearded defense psychiatrist gliding into the courtroom balanced precariously on roller skates; with a propellered beanie on his head, a ...