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From: Dvflushing <>
Subject: [GenChat-L] the Human Family
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:25:29 EDT

Bruce,

Interesting, however I'm glad you don't earn your living using math. Sounds
like a discussion from a postal worker in a down town bar in Boston. Share it
with Norm. Cheers!

> ..... If we carry this argument to say the year 1250 or so, the number of
> grandparents that each of us has is about 256,000,000. This is the total
> population of the world at that time. Thus we start having multiple
> relationships upon multiple relationships. Statistically we would descend
> from the entire population of the earth, if there were no multiple
> relationships (which there are really millions of). We can carry this to
> extremes. I once calculated this out, for a talk, to the Biblical
beginning
> of the world, though man surely existed before that. At about the time we
> attribute to Adam, we would have more grandparents than there are atoms in
> the universe. Clearly we are extremely closely related. ............
>
> Best Wishes, Bruce Wood

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