Thursday, June 19, 2008

Like it or not, we are all related...

I wanted to run out some numbers to show everyone that we are all related...all of us! Everyone on the face of the Earth has to be related and there is no other possible explanation. I do not care if you believe in evolution or Adam and Eve, we are all from the same stock.

To show you the numbers, I have to make a few assumptions but any number will work. In this case, I am assuming that a generation is forty years. In my chart below you will see the generation number, the total number of ancestors in that generation and their approximate birth year. In the first example, generation 1, you are the person in question, born in 2008. In the second example, these are your parents, numbering two total, born around 1968. In the third example, these are your grandparents, totalling four people, born around 1928. You get the idea...

I am running the chart out until the 31st generation where you have over one billion ancestors in that generation alone. The generation that we care the most about is number 29. This does not account for any inbreeding. This is assuming all non-related ancestors but inbreeding is the ultimate result.

1 = 1 (2008)
2 = 2 (1968)
3 = 4 (1928)
4 = 8 (1888)
5 = 16 (1848)
6 = 32 (1808)
7 = 64 (1768)
8 = 128 (1728)
9 = 256 (1688)
10 = 512 (1648)
11 = 1024 (1608)
12 = 2048 (1568)
13 = 4096 (1528)
14 = 8192 (1488)
15 = 16384 (1448)
16 = 32768 (1408)
17 = 65536 (1368)
18 = 131072 (1328)
19 = 262144 (1288)
20 = 524288 (1248)
21 = 1048576 (1208)
22 = 2097152 (1168)
23 = 4194304 (1128)
24 = 8388608 (1088)
25 = 16777216 (1048)
26 = 33554432 (1008)
27 = 67108864 (968)
28 = 134217728 (928)
29 = 268435456 (888) ********
30 = 536870912 (848)
31 = 1073741824 (808)

In the year 900 AD the world population, according to the US Census Bureau, was between 226 and 240 million people. In your 29th generation, approximately 888 AD, you would have had 268,435,456 ancestors from that generation alone. You had more contemporary ancestors than the population of the Earth. That leaves no other conclusion but to say that we are all related. Just do the math. I see no way around it.

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