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From: "Dave Railton" <>
Subject: RE: [CHS] A QUESTION OF MATHEMATICS!!
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 09:22:48 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20040313175511.35082.qmail@web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


Go back only 30 generations and the number is over 1,000,000,000 which is
far greater than the population of the world at the time!

The answer of course is intermarriage. I find that the easiest way to
understand this is to imagine a small population that reproduces without
increasing its total number.

David Railton

-----Original Message-----
From: John Phillips [mailto:]
Sent: 13 March 2004 17:55
To:
Subject: [CHS] A QUESTION OF MATHEMATICS!!


Dear All

Each one of us has 4096 direct ancestors back to 10 x great grandparents.
(c1550-1600.)

Anybody found them all?

Have fun!

John




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