If You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great parents, so if you go back 40 generations you’d have a supposed 1 Trillion ancestors, But only 100B humans have ever existed. Explain.

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If You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great parents, so if you go back 40 generations you’d have a supposed 1 Trillion ancestors, But only 100B humans have ever existed. Explain.

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everyone is related to some degree. people have lots of kids with lots of different people, so there’s more overlapping than you would think in family trees all over the world.

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