Post #4395824
2026-08-05 14:22 UTC
@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social in fairness, I think it’s more the mind-boggling thought that every person alive today had a mother and a father, who each had a mother and a father, who each had a mother and a father … and so on. If you go back even ten generations, that’s something like 1,000 people who had a role in bringing about each person alive today.
Which is kind of incomprehensible. One of my favourite bands wrote a song about it.
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@w_b@mastodon.world 2026-08-05 21:37
@hedders@mas.to @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social Monty python's "Ever Sperm is Sacred"
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social 2026-08-05 14:27
@hedders@mas.to John Farnham, right? "We're all someone's daughter, we're all someone's son!" 😀
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@joat@mastodon.scot 2026-08-05 17:31
@hedders@mas.to @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social if you go back 30 generations then the number of ancestors exceeds the population of the world at the time. Take as long as you like to think about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse