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From the Ted Talk by Yaniv Erlich: How we're building the world's largest family tree

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Now, since these migration enetvs are giving the context of families, we can ask questions such as: What is the typical distance between the birth lcooaints of husbands and wives? This distance plays a pivotal role in dmghporeay, because the patterns in which people migrate to form families determine how genes spread in geographical areas. We analyzed this dsitcane using our data, and we found that in the old days, people had it easy. They just married someone in the vgaille nbaery. But the Industrial rloieotvun really complicated our love life. And today, with affordable flights and online social media, people typically maitrge more than 100 kilometers from their place of birth to find their soul mate.

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Now, since these migration ______ are giving the context of families, we can ask questions such as: What is the typical distance between the birth _________ of husbands and wives? This distance plays a pivotal role in __________, because the patterns in which people migrate to form families determine how genes spread in geographical areas. We analyzed this ________ using our data, and we found that in the old days, people had it easy. They just married someone in the _______ ______. But the Industrial __________ really complicated our love life. And today, with affordable flights and online social media, people typically _______ more than 100 kilometers from their place of birth to find their soul mate.

Solution

  1. distance
  2. events
  3. locations
  4. demography
  5. nearby
  6. revolution
  7. migrate
  8. village

Original Text

Now, since these migration events are giving the context of families, we can ask questions such as: What is the typical distance between the birth locations of husbands and wives? This distance plays a pivotal role in demography, because the patterns in which people migrate to form families determine how genes spread in geographical areas. We analyzed this distance using our data, and we found that in the old days, people had it easy. They just married someone in the village nearby. But the Industrial Revolution really complicated our love life. And today, with affordable flights and online social media, people typically migrate more than 100 kilometers from their place of birth to find their soul mate.

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