Are We All Related?
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Published 2017-05-09
This is part 3 of our special series on Human Ancestry!
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In part 3 of our special series on human ancestry, we investigate how closely related we all really are. Basic math tells us that all humans share ancestors. But you’ll be amazed at how recently those shared ancestors lived. Thanks to genetic data in the 21st century, we’re even discovering that we really are all descended from one mother.
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REFERENCES:
Chang, Joseph T. "Recent common ancestors of all present-day individuals." Advances in Applied Probability 31.04 (1999): 1002-1026.
Jorde, Lynn B. "Genetic variation and human evolution." (2003).
Rohde, Douglas LT. "On the common ancestors of all living humans." (2003)
Rohde, Douglas LT, Steve Olson, and Joseph T. Chang. "Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans." Nature 431.7008 (2004): 562-566.
Stringer, Chris. “Lone survivors: How we came to be the only humans on earth.” Macmillan, 2012. amzn.to/2oIFg3q (Library: www.worldcat.org/oclc/855581724)
Tattersall, Ian. “Masters of the planet: the search for our human origins.” Macmillan, 2012. amzn.to/2pOZrKS (Library: www.worldcat.org/oclc/733231407)
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All Comments (21)
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🎶We are family…🎶 Have you watched the rest of my human ancestry series? Part 4 comes out next week!
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"Don't talk to strangers on the internet!" Me: don't worry, they're family.
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son: am I adopted? parents: no.. we’re related, but distance..
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“Wanna go on a date?” “Ew no your not 172794846627446683th cousin Jeremy!!”
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Can't wait to see all of my 8.1 billion family members at the next family reunion! I promise I'll bring the Oreos this time... Also, R.I.P. to the 35.7 million relatives that we have lost so far this year, we will never forget you <3
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Wars are just intense family arguments.
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Pros: I'm related to everybody Cons: I'm related to everybody
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everyone needs to watch this video everyday, were a human family
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Shout out to all my aunts, cousins, uncles, grandpas, grandmas, nephews, and nieces
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So that kid on Xbox live wasn't joking when he said his cousin works at Microsoft.
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Me: Goes inside a celebrity's house. Them: WTF? WHO TF ARE YOU? im your cousin you silly goose
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01:26 I love how "Djingis Kahn" is a mathematical factor XD
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I always thought about this as a kid. it intrested me so much. like there is aboslutely no way there is 8 billion of us and we dont have (at LEAST) one common ancestor in our bloodline. meaning we're all related in some way, i mean, back then, we only had so many humans and since eventually8 each family will join with another leaving only a few families left, we had to have done something with imbreeding.
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When you realize that you're 0.00000000000000001% related to Stalin "I serve the Soviet Union"
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Teacher: name all your family members *sighs heavily*
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Everyone’s chill til Mr. Beast says he’s giving 100$ to everyone that’s related to him
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I remember my biology teacher mentioning what you said about mitochondria
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So if you're adopted you're just living with distant family
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*in a concert* Me: can i go on stage Security: no Me: BUT HE'S MY COUSIN
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This is a question I always wanted to be answered! THANK YOU!
