While we still can.... NB (except in bits)

[Sybarite]

I have two philosophical points :

On the basis that I have two parents, four grand parents, eight great grand parents etc etc and that I am reliably informed that, on my paternal grandmother's side, I am the 133rd descendant since Noah (this is the slightly boaty connection) , this would mean, at that time, the Earth's population would have been about 5500 trillion trillion trillion.

When you think of where we have got to in the history of the human race and with the millions of ancestors through the ages with wars, pestilence and famines, not to mention sea travel - not one of your ancestors - not a single one did not live to the age of reproduction.

John

 

[powerskipper]

What you been reading or trying to work on to come up with that, or did you just find a new calculator.

 

[PhilipH]

did you just try the standing up very quickly or something that packs rather more punch?

 

[IanPoole2]

Re: While we still can.... NB (except in bits)

Ah! - looks like you forgot the in-breeding. If Adam & Eve were the first and only ones - then them and their off-spring should have been jailed!- but by who?

 

[DJE]

So we've all got more ancestors than the total number of people ever to live on earth. Shome mishtake shurely.

 

[BrendanS]

The mistake is in the maths. We don't all have a pyramid of ancestors above us in an ever increasing inverted pyramid, totally divorced of connection to anyone else. In fact we all have common ancestors, and the further you go back, the more ancestors in common

 

[Nickel]

And some would say, that on the IoW you don't even have to go that far back - dreadful slur. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Metabarca]

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The mistake is in the maths. We don't all have a pyramid of ancestors above us in an ever increasing inverted pyramid, totally divorced of connection to anyone else. In fact we all have common ancestors, and the further you go back, the more ancestors in common

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God's teeth; that means I'm related to you lot... and to Jimi... and to Bliar... and to the Bay City Rollers.... Time for an unreality check!

 

[Sybarite]

Apparently DNA records show that we all originated from a group of about 2000 people from the Kalahari desert region, Namibia, the sole survivors of some Yellowstone Park-like super volcano eruption that changed the climate signifoicantly for a number of years.

John