Ancestral Mathematics

[ravip]

In order to be born, you needed:

• 2 parents
• 4 grandparents
• 8 great-grandparents
• 16 second great-grandparents
• 32 third great-grandparents
• 64 fourth great-grandparents
• 128 fifth great-grandparents
• 256 sixth great-grandparents
• 512 seventh great-grandparents
• 1,024 eighth great-grandparents
• 2,048 ninth great-grandparents

 

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total sum of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.

Think for a moment – How many struggles? How many battles? How many difficulties? How much sadness? How much happiness? How many love stories? How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment…

[Pilotman]

so where did all the money go? They <deleted> it all away on riotous parties, bounteous whores, gin by the bucketful and old ale in 56 gallon barrels, all in the Tavens of Old England no doubt.  Selfish pricks. 

[Dumbastheycome]

Cloning  screws  the  maths  up  right ?

[Heppinger]

You don't need all those people,  Afghans have family trees twice that size and half the amount of first cousins.

[WorriedNoodle]

20 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

Cloning  screws  the  maths  up  right ?

Also being born in some of those small outback Australian towns from what I saw of them back in the day ????

[Dumbastheycome]

5 minutes ago, WorriedNoodle said:

Also being born in some of those small outback Australian towns from what I saw of them back in the day ????

I have never entered Australia but to be fair I think many countries have some pockets of genetic anomalies.