So as I wrote about in a previous post, as I was drilling down into my family history past, I came across historical lines that show (possibly) that my ancestors decended from some of the royal houses of Europe. Then I started going back further and "thought" that maybe my line started with and emperor of the 7th century A.D.
Well, today as I am searching for stuff, I came across another website that tries to explain how most westerners (me and others), if not all of us are indeed probably decended from that emperor!! How suprising for me to come up with that same assumption....see paragraph from the web site mentioned, below:
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Site:http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/FamTree/Royal/ca.html
An excerpt:
Many people here have multiple Royal Descents. I show the most recent monarch they descend from.
Exponential growth (going backward): Consider that you need 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, and so on. Assuming an average of about 25 years per generation, you only need to go back to about 1200 AD, quite within historical times, to need more separate ancestors than the entire population of the world. The solution to this paradox is of course that ancestors are duplicated. All of us descend from a massive amount of intermarriage even within the last few hundred years.
See estimates for Common ancestors of all humans, and in particular see Exponential growth (going forward). Restricting ourselves just to Europe (and those of European descent abroad) it is quite possible that the most recent common ancestor of the West lies within historical times. It is possible, for example, that every single westerner descends from Charlemagne.
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