Is the US Presidency a Matter of Nepotism?
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All she's done is demonstrate a particular case of the obvious, we're all cousins to some degree and it's easy to demonstrate with a relatively simple analysis. Everybody has one pair of parents, two pairs of grandparents, four pairs of great grandparents, the numbers doubling at each step back. Given the nature of geometric progressions, the number of ancestors soon exceeds the number of people who've ever lived, and the explanation is that people start showing up on both sides of a family tree and get counted multiple times. First cousins who marry, for instance, share a set of grandparents, so their children will have only three pairs of great grandparents. The farther back you go the more widespread that is in a family tree. If you go back in time far enough (and it's not really very far, only a few thousand years I think) everybody alive at that point can be put into one of two categories: ancestors of everybody currently alive, or ancestors of nobody currently alive. Richard Dawkins laid out a detailed analysis in his 1995 book A River Out of Eden.
Doubtful about the aliens, but monkeys certainly, that divergence is only a few million years back.
Aliens, hell ya! It says so right in the bible: the sons of the sky gods boinked the daughters of man. And here I thought you wre a bible scholar. 8O
Oh sure, ruin one of Karrie's best troll threads in years. Take away all her fun. She hasn't been able to do this in how long, because of her position as a mod. So, what's the reason Dex...... you really don't like her,,..... do ya..... come on now, admit it.
and I suppose you'll be quoting von daniken next.
I admit nothing except that I like karrie a lot, she's a smart, sensible, well-adjusted person and one of the dozen or so posters here I wish I knew in real life, quite apart from the impression some of her avatars give of her being a seriously hot babe.
Maybe I'll also admit this: I'm compulsively and impulsively didactic, but most people have probably figured that out by now.