I think his point was that parents and children do not choose each other. Who you get is a matter of luck. > He is the culmination of generations of ancestors'

I think his point was that parents and children do not choose each other. Who you get is a matter of luck. > He is the culmination of generations of ancestors' luck, as is the civilisation.... FIFY Ancestry is hierarchical, but luck and success are a graph laid over a society.