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Nice breakdown. Maybe it works the other way too.. that a large percentage of the population alive today can count rulership/prominence in their ancestry. I sp
by krmboya 4y ago
Nice breakdown. Maybe it works the other way too.. that a large percentage of the population alive today can count rulership/prominence in their ancestry.
I speculate that when times were hard for humans in the course of history, those who were better off were more likely to successfully raise kids to adulthood, who in turn had better chances of establishing their own families
- irrational 4y agoYes, every single person alive that has any ancestry from Western Europe is a direct descendant of William the conqueror and Charlemagne and others. But they are also all direct descendants of the servant who cleaned out their potty every morning (presuming that servant had descendants). Claiming royal descent is not a big deal since we are all descended from everyone that lived back then and has descendants to this day. https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/01/your-family-past-present-and-future.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/01/your-family-past-present-and-... https://nautil.us/youre-descended-from-royalty-and-so-is-everybody-else-236939/ https://nautil.us/youre-descended-from-royalty-and-so-is-eve...