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Re: Grandparents ~ Somebody check my math - something doesn't add up!
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Gleb Gamow
on 03/08/2017, 19:18:32 UTC
Obviously we share common ancestors, not to mention one male can get any number of females pregnant. You don't need 20 people to generate 10 people, actually just a couple suffices.

Okay, let's do the reverse.

Pretend that a thousand years ago there were only two people on the planet. They had two children, a boy and girl. Forty generations later, that equates to a trillion offsprings, of which there has never been a trillion people total on this planet.