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These points are true. And note that 2^24 is larger than the population of Italy at that time. But you should be extremely cautious about presuming that these
by iguy 8y ago
These points are true. And note that 2^24 is larger than the population of Italy at that time.
But you should be extremely cautious about presuming that these 2^24-minus-duplications ancestors were anything like uniformly distributed. Top-10% Florentines today may easily have a majority of their descent from top-10% ones 600 years ago. Because the rich had more kids, in a time of very slow overall population growth.
- credit_guy 8y agoWell, my guess is that 100% of the Florentines today have easily a majority of their ancestors in the top 10% of the Florentines 600 years ago. Survival of the fittest and stuff ...
- iguy 8y agoCould be, I was trying to be cautious! But many, many, people are extremely surprised to think that survival of the fittest has any relevance within historical time. Let alone between us and Dante.