Well it depends on how large the pool is, but unless other members of the pool have a significantly higher set of polygenic scores than you it’s pretty likely you’ll have roughly equal contributions. I suppose I’d have to do the math to see exactly how big of an influence that would have.
I also suspect it’s a threshold goal, and not a maximization goal, which is why people want some number N of children and not “as many children as I can afford to have”.
Interesting hypothesis. This matches fairly well with my own observations, though that might just be because there is no way for parents to have a quarter of their DNA be in any of their children.
One interesting test might be to see if grandparents favor grandchildren with more of their DNA than ones with less, since there can be variance among grandchildren and not among children.
Well it depends on how large the pool is, but unless other members of the pool have a significantly higher set of polygenic scores than you it’s pretty likely you’ll have roughly equal contributions. I suppose I’d have to do the math to see exactly how big of an influence that would have.
Interesting hypothesis. This matches fairly well with my own observations, though that might just be because there is no way for parents to have a quarter of their DNA be in any of their children.
One interesting test might be to see if grandparents favor grandchildren with more of their DNA than ones with less, since there can be variance among grandchildren and not among children.