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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] RE: William the Conqueror
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:47:46 -0600
References: <auto-000002264246@mail1.warpdriveonline.com>


Don't you think royalty married mainly within their "kind"? Look at Europe
at the outbreak of WWI. A large fraction of European royalty descended from
Queen Victoria of Great Britain. It is true all the eligible spouses for a
royal person did not live in the same valley, but there certainly was a
restricted pool of acceptable candidates.

In fact when you go back a lot of
> > generations in a particular geograpical area where most people have
> > children with other people from the same area, you can expect to descend
> > many times from the same smaller number of people, thus reducing the
> > number you say you can compute a lot. (On the other hand, this would be
> > less true for the nobility.)
>


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