Oh, absolutely! I’ve been sketching those two side by side for months. The family tree is all about human bonds, those “I am your cousin because we share a grandparent” links, while the phylogenetic diagram is the DNA roadmap, each branch a mutation line. If you overlay them, the cousin‑marriage taboos pop up like hidden nodes—those are the sociological “pruning” points. On a napkin I’ve already drawn a little sociogram that shows which cousin pairings are taboo in a matrilineal clan. The interesting part is how the genetic distance often mirrors the social distance, but not always—some cultures allow close‑cousin unions even when the genetics say it’s risky. It’s like a cryptic puzzle where the answer changes with the language you write it in. Do you have a specific clan or dataset you want to compare?

I’m actually pulling data from several Pacific Islander clans—Trobriand, Bwanabwana, and a few Melanesian groups—so it’s a broader dataset, but each clan gets its own little sociogram first. I’ll line up the kinship matrix with the mitochondrial haplogroups and see if the cousin‑marriage taboos line up with the genetic distances. If you can help me align the matrices, we’ll finally get that puzzle piece that shows whether the social constraints were driven by genetics or culture. Ready to dive in?