Geneology question

[UriBentMySpoon]

The reality is in the past cousins, sometimes closer relations than that married so given a particular timespan we are all, to a degree, the product of incestuous behaviour.

Just ask him outright if his lineage is likely to be from Norfolk.

Metaphorically speaking we are all from Norfolk.

Unless you are a completely new species, born from a new moment of creation seperate from all other life on Earth?

 

[securespark]

tosser

I clicked on the thread as I quickly read it as gynecology

Go help you if you need a paediatrician...

 

[Whitespirit66]

Unless you are a completely new species, born from a new moment of creation seperate from all other life on Earth?

Who gave you this information, earthling?

 

[Micilin]

1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376 apparently (2 to the power of 100). But of course you don't because as you go back further two or more of your ancestors will have come from a single source.
Whatever your own interpretations of human origin it is likely that we are all descended from one male and one female, in one interpretation for example, Adam and Eve. So your family tree can't be a triangle that gets wider as you go back in time because it ends with just two. So is it diamond shaped?

In evolutionary terms it probably is not the case that a new species goes back to one pair in a single breeding event. For some time there would be interbreeding between newvand old generations until one population became unable or unwilling to breed with another.Then the groups would diverge enough so that they could not produce offspring that ciuld themselves reproduce. Our lineage is in a continuum over millennia rather than point events.

That said I like your idea of a diamond but I suspect it would look more like a stack of hourglasses of varying dimensions