Thinking caps on please!
First of all...it's been etsimated that something like 106,456,367,669 (That's about 106.5 billion) people have been born and lived on this earth...? This is all guesswork by the way...but still quite interesting methinks...please keep reading!
NOW! Me, (and you!) have had TWO parents, FOUR grandparents, EIGHT great grandparents and so on, and so on....(do keep reading!)
NOW! If me, (and you!) go back 37 generations of our family trees, we will discover that our family tree (should have) a total population of 137,438,953,472 (That's about 137.5 billion!)
So, (I do realize this is a load of guesswork but...)
106.5 billion people have ever lived on earth (apparently)
137.5 billion people in my (and your!) family tree (seemingly)
NOW! It seems that me, (and you!) must share the same family tree?!
It also seems that each and every one of the apparent 106.5 billion that make up the worlds population, MUST be in my (and your!) family tree?!
(137.5billion minus 106.5 billion = 31 billion that are inbreeding or something?)
There's two things we can learn from this:
1 We are all much more closely related than we realize!
or:
2 Nigel is profoundly bad at maths!
Comments?