Re: ANCESTRY QUESTION?
Fury (fury@dartmouth.edu)
19 Jan 1995 17:42:00 GMT
In article <60.8459.3724.0N1C9C26@canrem.com>
j#d#.moore@canrem.com (J. Moore) writes:
> What you're missing is that we share ancestors.
Or (to put it another way) one ancestor may fulfill a number of
functions on that line; after all, to some extent or another we're all
related, right? To make it simpler, imagine that there are only two
humans in the earth, a man and a woman. They have a daughter and son,
who in turn have a daughter and a son, who in turn have a daughter and
a son, who ... etc. Of course, reality lies somewhere between this
'completely related' model and the original poster's 'completely
unrelated' model, in which there is a one-to-one correspondance between
ancestoral relationships and people.
Hmm, I can't decide if this is more or less clear. Make sense, anyone?
Jane
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