You know one\u00a0 of my hobbies is genealogy. And you’ve heard the 6 Degrees of Separation theory. Well, I have one for you.<\/p>\n
You are one.\u00a0Your parents are 2. Your grandparents are 4 in number. Your great-grandparents are 8. You have 16 great-great (or 2nd-great) grandparents. You have\u00a032\u00a0third-great-grandparents. And 64 fourth-great grandparents.<\/p>\n
Certain observations follow from this. First, it’d be hard to get you and all your relatives into the same room.<\/p>\n
Second, if you’ve ever thought about trying to do a genealogy, it’s a pretty broad target. Your chances of being related to somebody who left records is fairly high.<\/p>\n
The tenth-greats carry you into the 1600’s. And it’s sometimes possible to find connections all the way back to the 30th-greats. When you reach the 34th-greats, your number of active grandparents of that generation exceeds the current population of Earth.<\/p>\n
Somewhere back there, there’s got to be some duplication, eh? So we’re sharing people.<\/p>\n
By the time you reach the 70th generation, you’ve hit the BC\/AD divide. And the number of\u00a0grandparents you have\u00a0by the 70th generation…I haven’t calculated. But it’s got to be considerable. You’re probably related not only to the whole Roman Empire, but to the whole planet, in one degree or another, especially since the world population was considerably smaller then.<\/p>\n
Good morning, world. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Kind of makes you know how much it’s taken the world to produce you, <\/em>doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know one\u00a0 of my hobbies is genealogy. And you’ve heard the 6 Degrees of Separation theory. Well, I have one for you. You are one.\u00a0Your parents are 2. Your grandparents are 4 in number. Your great-grandparents are 8. You have 16 great-great (or 2nd-great) grandparents. You have\u00a032\u00a0third-great-grandparents. And 64 fourth-great grandparents. Certain observations follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,40],"class_list":["post-7261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-genealogy","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}