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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You might think "cool, I am descended from someone who came over on the Mayflower", and that gives you some kind of meaningful connection to them, some shared genetic material, for example. But go back 15 generations and you would have 32,000 ancestors. [b]So in fact you would have close to zero genetic input from anyone alive then[/b].[/quote] So dumb question, but where is my genetic input from then?[/quote] Completely diluted among the genetic input from those other 32,000 ancestors. A bit more real than homeopathy...but not that much. The exception would have been if those Mayflower travelers and their descendants had decided to marry and procreate exclusively between themselves. [/quote]
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