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All but One US President Are Directly Related to Each Other

3 points by teleforce 2y ago

bell-cot 2y ago
...but that "directly" is via a common ancestor who lived >8 centuries ago. And that's a far less interesting result, when you look at the statistical arguments for the most recent common ancestor of all-ish now-living humans being a mere 30-some centuries ago: http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/NatureAncestorsPressRelease.html http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/Nature...
- teleforce 2y ago
  Except that the most interesting fact is that the mother of King John Lackland Plantagenet (the common ancestor), was Eleanor of Aquitaine who's arguably the most powerful woman in the world's history [1]. She's married to both King of France and King of England, and mother to three kings during her lifetime. She is well known during her time as warmongering queen that's very instrumental and the leading figure in the Second Crusade to the holy city of Jerusalem, and the civil wars against her own husband, King Henry II of England. Infact she's the ancestor to all the Kings and Queens of both French Empire and British Empire, even the incumbent King of the latter. If the claim that she's the ancestor to all US presidents except one is true, her descendants have been ruling the most powerful countries, empires and super powers for the past one thousand years or millenia. The only equivalent to this that I can find is the characters of Bene Gesserit in the popular Dune Sci-Fi book series [2]. This takes the meaning of the popular idiom, 'apple does not fall far from the tree' to another level, and interestingly there's currently a war in the holy city of Jerusalem. [1] Eleanor of Aquitaine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine [2] Bene Gesserit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit

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All but One US President Are Directly Related to Each Other

3 points by teleforce 2y ago

bell-cot 2y ago
...but that "directly" is via a common ancestor who lived >8 centuries ago. And that's a far less interesting result, when you look at the statistical arguments for the most recent common ancestor of all-ish now-living humans being a mere 30-some centuries ago: http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/NatureAncestorsPressRelease.html http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/Nature...
- teleforce 2y ago
  Except that the most interesting fact is that the mother of King John Lackland Plantagenet (the common ancestor), was Eleanor of Aquitaine who's arguably the most powerful woman in the world's history [1]. She's married to both King of France and King of England, and mother to three kings during her lifetime. She is well known during her time as warmongering queen that's very instrumental and the leading figure in the Second Crusade to the holy city of Jerusalem, and the civil wars against her own husband, King Henry II of England. Infact she's the ancestor to all the Kings and Queens of both French Empire and British Empire, even the incumbent King of the latter. If the claim that she's the ancestor to all US presidents except one is true, her descendants have been ruling the most powerful countries, empires and super powers for the past one thousand years or millenia. The only equivalent to this that I can find is the characters of Bene Gesserit in the popular Dune Sci-Fi book series [2]. This takes the meaning of the popular idiom, 'apple does not fall far from the tree' to another level, and interestingly there's currently a war in the holy city of Jerusalem. [1] Eleanor of Aquitaine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine [2] Bene Gesserit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit