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From: "Denise Smart" <>
Subject: RE: [DEV] common ancesters
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 11:27:15 +0100
In-Reply-To: <000601c552c0$111ba4f0$6401a8c0@main>


... and ...

if we all come from Adam and Eve ....

-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Hunt [mailto:]
Sent: 07 May 2005 05:49
To:
Subject: RE: [DEV] common ancesters


Yea cuz, I have always thought we would all have to be related. Would be
great if we all donated DNA and had it compared. We would have a few
surprises I think.
Anne


-----Original Message-----
From: bruce lawton [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, 7 May 2005 04:16
To:
Subject: [DEV] common ancesters


> Hi List
> I did some math the other day and figured out something interesting.
> Check out this idea:
>
> Every generation is roughly 20 years, and every time you go back one more
> it
> is a factor of two. 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16
> gggranparents
> etc... So, 30 generations back is about 1066. 2 to the 30th power is
> over
> a billion. There weren't a billion people on the planet in 1066, and
> there
> were a couple million English people. That means that I am probably
> related
> to every single person alive in England in 1066 and currently alive today
> several times over in a dozen different ways.
>
> Whatcha think about that?

Bruce



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