Cool graphic from Brian Roemmele. 
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Thatβs cool. Heβs the only person I miss on Twitter. Wish he would bring his insights to Nostr
Fascinating
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we all are connected and came from the one same origin
Cool
Not sure if that's absolutely accurate, what if some of your grand parents mingled with distant or not so distant cousins? π
Brian is one of the best follows on Twitter. Hope he joins Nostr one dayπ
This is why it's so goddamn hard to illustrate a family tree of any reasonable size!
And that probably only accounts for the last 200-250 years or so. Math! Procreation!!
Those numbers seem familiar... π
Let's bless our ancestors every day. We are living in the most comfortable period of the history with technology, information and science.
I think incest may skew these numbers somewhat, particularly a few centuries ago
In-breeding might have happened at those scales ;)
I wonder how common in-breeding is over 12 generations or in other words, how close to 4096 10th generation great grand parents the average human has. I bet it's less than 4000.
IT should allow to represent any data set you can research but it quickly gets embarrassing when the closed circles appear on the graph π
Well, there's the upward, but then when you come back down, you also have a branching out effect that worsens the ability to fit everyone in.
Oh, you mean you want to draw all the offsprings of all your 4096 10th level great grand parents? That's probably in the billions?
Continuing this out, my calculator says if you go back 40 generations you have a trillion ancestors?
I wish Digit was here to explain the math better
A flawed understanding of human ancestry illustrated by a base 2 progression that most ppl moderately familiar with computers know off by heart. I'm not seeing the 'coolness' here