• finally debunked
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    51 year ago

    this is fucked up calculations, for 100th generation we would need more humans than have ever lived

    • Temple Square
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      221 year ago

      Your flaw is assuming that a couple only produces one child. Many humans can share the same ancestor.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          Not even inbreeding, strictly speaking, when you go back that far. At 12 generations back you’ve got lots of ancestors with common ancestors, but they aren’t so closely related that conceiving a child between them would be incest. Doesn’t have to be siblings; very distant cousins would also reduce the number of total ancestors. They need not even have known their relation to one another.

          • @Tavarin
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            41 year ago

            By second cousins the rate of genetic abnormalities is the same as for distant strangers. You really don’t have to go very far back for it to not cause issues.