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Interesting genealogy story here on Yahoo 1, statisticians say we'd only have to go back 2000 years or so for all our family trees to interconnect

With the help of a statistician, a computer scientist and a supercomputer, Olson has calculated just how interconnected the human family tree is. You would have to go back in time only 2,000 to 5,000 years and probably on the low side of that range to find somebody who could count every person alive today as a descendant.

Furthermore, Olson and his colleagues have found that if you go back a little farther about 5,000 to 7,000 years ago everybody living today has exactly the same set of ancestors. In other words, every person who was alive at that time is either an ancestor to all 6 billion people living today, or their line died out and they have no remaining descendants.

  1. Previously news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/brotherhood_of_man

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