• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    17 hours ago

    Go back like 30 generations, and see how many times people had to have fucked just to make you. 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16…

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      13 hours ago

      30 generations ago required over 500k mating pairs. That would mean over a billion great-^28 grandparents. Though there is likely some overlap.

      And all that gene juice eventually trickled down to you.