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> If you go back on average 1.77 times further again (35 generations) everyone in the population will have exactly the same set of common ancestors The problem
by est 14y ago
> If you go back on average 1.77 times further again (35 generations) everyone in the population will have exactly the same set of common ancestors
The problem is, different people have different life span. And different people can share the same parent.
And sometimes in extreme cases, father - daughter love?
- reidrac 14y agoThere's a method to estimate that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#MRCA_of_all_living_humans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#MRC... "Studies have used computer modelling to estimate that the MRCA of modern humans lived between 5,000 to 2,000 years ago."