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A country is too big. The number of 6th cousins somebody has is on the order of thousands. If you're from a small town with stable population (people haven't mo
by CrazyStat 3y ago
A country is too big. The number of 6th cousins somebody has is on the order of thousands. If you're from a small town with stable population (people haven't moved in or out much for the last couple hundred years) you might be 6th cousins with pretty much everyone.
- lolinder 3y agoAgreed, sixth is too close to be "everyone" in a country, but the general principle is accurate: we tend to have closer common ancestors than we might think.
- mistrial9 3y agomany earlier societies had traditions of inter-tribal wife-stealing .. farmer cultures with socially important grandmothers practiced social interchange.. meanwhile, opportunistic breeders often physically moved around and did not have stability patterns.. this is a massive subject, not possible to talk about without errant conclusions and misstated sub-parts, right?
- CrazyStat 3y agoNone of that changes the math of how many cousins you have.