edit: The reason I find it an odd term is because human ancestry literally doesn’t follow a line. It always branches off, even if only to just include two parents. It’s a tree like structure, a line would misrepresent it

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    21 hours ago

    Yeah, it only matters for old-school animal breeders and royal genealogists. It’s a pre-scientific notion.