Another Ancestor Paradox
Another Ancestor Paradox with tags minuteearth, minute earth, minutephysics, minute physics, earth, history, science, environment, environmental science, earth science, ancestry, genealogy, descendants, population, cousins, parents
There is a point in human history where everyone alive at the time fits into one of two categories: Either they are the ancestor of nobody alive today, or they are an ancestor of everyone alive today because of how genealogy and genetic lineages work – and it is much more recent than you think.
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- Identical ancestors point: the most recent point in a population's past where each individual alive then is either the ancestor of every individual alive now or has no currently living descendants.
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Cameron Duke | Script Writer, Narrator and Director
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