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> A thousand years ago, we Europeans share all of our ancestry. Triple that time and we share all our ancestry with everyone on Earth. We are all cousins, of so
by excalibur 9y ago
> A thousand years ago, we Europeans share all of our ancestry. Triple that time and we share all our ancestry with everyone on Earth. We are all cousins, of some degree. I find this pleasing, a warm light for all mankind to share.
I've always found it mildly disturbing, to know that anybody you could possibly mate with is related to you somehow.
- ouid 9y agothat's a pretty harsh thing to find disturbing, given that you're the product of 4 billion years of incest.
- 1stranger 9y agoWell we also constantly mass-murder our cousins (cows, fish, pigs, etc.) So not sure mating is more disturbing. Well unless you're talking about cows.
- jotm 9y agoAnd our actual cousins (all the wars). So not sure what's more disturbing.
- pessimizer 9y agoThe vast majority of your recent ancestors' matings were within the village or between neighboring villages. You're the result of dozens of generations of cousin-mating, and a few generations of not-cousin-mating.