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[calik]

"Essentially, whether you have descendants is an all-or-nothing proposition in the long run, as two coauthors and I showed in an article in the scientific journal Nature a couple of years ago. If a person has four or five grandchildren, that person will almost certainly be an ancestor of the entire world population two or three millenniums from now

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[kakayaraznica]

um, exactly HOW did jesus produce the "requisite four or five grandhildren"? or does immaculate conception run in his line as an X-linked recessive trait?

[calik]

This was from a story connected to the "Da Vinci Code" - in the book, the main theory is that Jesus had children with Mary Magdalene. So if he really did have children, then according to this guy and his formulas we are all related to Jesus.

The general principle though (that we are all related, and that you'd be the ancestor of the entire world population 2,000 years from now) is the amazing part.