# Statistical properties of genealogical trees

## Acknowledgements

Interesting discussions with Ugo Bastolla are gratefully acknowledged. SCM acknowledges support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and from Fundación Antorchas (Argentina).

## Figure caption

1. Probability of ancestor repetitions in the genealogical tree of the king Edward III . The continuous and dashed lines represent the results of simulations of $`F(r)`$ in a closed population with $`2^{11}`$ and $`2^{12}`$ individuals for our model. Averages have been performed over the 10 first generations of $`10^3`$ independent trees.
2. Distribution $`H(r,n_g)`$ of $`r`$ repetitions after $`n_g`$ generations ($`H(0,n_g)`$ is not shown). The distribution changes after roughly $`\mathrm{log}N`$ generations from a decreasing function of $`r`$ to a distribution with a maximum. The generations shown are $`n_g=9,\mathrm{\hspace{0.33em}13},\mathrm{\hspace{0.33em}15},\mathrm{\hspace{0.33em}17},\mathrm{\hspace{0.33em}19},\mathrm{\hspace{0.33em}21},`$ and $`23`$ for a population with $`N=2^{15}`$. We have averaged over 100 independent runs.
3. Data collapse for the rescaled distribution of repetitions $`P(w)`$ after the transient period. Averages have been performed over $`10^3`$ independent trees for a population size $`N=2^{20}`$.
4. Dependence of $`S(n_g)`$ on the generation $`n_g`$ for a population with $`N=2^{15}`$. The numerical asymptotic value is $`S(n_g\mathrm{})0.2031`$. The bold dotted line is the predicted theoretical value $`S=g(\mathrm{})=0.20318787\mathrm{}`$. In the inset, we represent the first ten moments $`w^n`$ for the distribution $`P(w)`$. The continuous line corresponds to numerical results, while solid circles stand for the theoretical predictions.