How many grandparents????

Wait...I just thought of something,

If we all have at some point 4 grandparents at least, regardless whether they are alive.

Our parents both had 4 grandparents aswel, meaning we have 8 great grandparents,

Then 16 great great grandparents

Then 32 great great great grandparents

....damn, that's crazy when you think of as ancestors are your specific family line

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Sazzio · 31-35, M

Know what I sometimes think? Imagine your partner / future partner, right? Then imagine YOUR lineage and HER lineage are the same! (So great great great great Grandparents the same)! Yer practically bro n sis 😷

One reason y Punjabi / Sikhs avoid marrying people with same surnames from both mum n dad sides. BUT STILL MEANS SH1T! Anything was possible; forgotten timeline, change o surnames past 100+ yrs ago.

HeWhoLaughs · 26-30, M

@Sazzio it shows that we are all one family yes, but in the end you can't worry about that too much

uniglow · 36-40, M

I know the names of 31 out of 32 great great great grandparents. Only one of them has the same surname as me, yet each of them could have been equally influential in my genetics.

HeWhoLaughs · 26-30, M

@uniglow it's crazy eh, that means if we went 1000's of years back, we would be related to a stupidly large amount of people

uniglow · 36-40, M

@HeWhoLaughs Here's the weirdest thing. If you go back 1000 years, and assume 25 years is a generation, so 1000 years is 40 generations, that equals 1.1 trillion ancestors, but the world population was only about 300 million.

SW-User

I have none alive right now; and only ever had 4 alive when I was born

HeWhoLaughs · 26-30, M

@SW-User as I said, this isn't talking about grandparents alive, but in order for you to exist, you have to have 4 grandparents

Spoiledbrat · F

I have a step grandparent but the rest are gone.

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