To: Verginius Rufus
...you have ancestors from whom you have inherited no DNA...yet without them having existed and produced children, you would not exist.
Precisely. Most people have 46 family trees; thus, at the gggg-grand level, of the 64 possible slots, at least 18 of them passed down nothing to each of us.
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18 posted on
04/22/2019 8:26:06 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
Here's an example, from the top down:
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23 posted on
04/22/2019 9:01:04 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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