I mean, I would imagine that after millions of years, we had to begin from something, so could we all somehow be related to each other?
2007-04-24 10:47:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I believe so. I'm not religious so I don't believe in Adam and Eve or anything but I do a lot of genealogy research for my own family and some friends. You go back enough and you can see how you are slightly related to hundreds of thousands of people, go back further and it's even more.
Every generation back that you count, your ancestors double. If you go back 10 generations, you have 1024 ancestors (meaning you have 1024 g-g-g-g-g-g-g-great-grandparents) If you somehow could follow your family tree back to the year 800, you can have well over 200 trillion ancestors supposedly living at the same time. Because that's impossible, it explains the fact that 80% of marriages in history were between second cousins, etc.. I've seen that in my own family tree and in others. You start to see that a few hundred years ago, in America and elsewhere, small communities were only made up of a certain amount of families so at some point every family married into the other creating children who were all related in some 'cousin' way. Those kids married, and so on.
There's some model created by a demographer, is shows that:
"a person born in 1947 in England tracing back to 1492 would have 60,000 ancestors. Going back further to 1215, this person would find that 80% of the entire population of England at that time would be on his/her family tree. So anyone living in present-day England who traces his/her lineage back through English history would theoretically be related."
I'm not even bringing up evolution.
2007-04-24 11:09:39 · answer #1 · answered by Pico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to evolution, all living organisms evolved from one common ancestral form. Through millions of years, divergent evolution, and reproductive isolation, different species evolved. So yes, in a way it is possible to be related to everyone.
2007-04-24 17:54:19 · answer #2 · answered by jazzband08 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope
Cross culture breeding has only become more prevelant over the past 200 years......
2007-04-24 17:58:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah we are! adam and Eve! the real question is when will we stop, I have alway wonderd who will be the last people. but Adam and Eve was the first! so yeah (sorry to get off subject)
2007-04-24 17:57:18 · answer #4 · answered by <3!love life!<3 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Adam and Eve. It's DNA baby!
2007-04-24 17:51:34 · answer #5 · answered by yaabro 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i think so
2007-04-24 18:43:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋