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Re: The Awesome Science Thread
| quote: | Originally posted by Acton
I don't think a thread like this has been created before, so fuck it.... I made one (actually I'm sure there is one, but I can't be arsed look for it).
I guess it could be a thread for some awesome science related stuff? I'm sure there's one in the forum somewhere, but search is broke.
Anyway...
I don't usually dive into biology, as it's not fundamental enough, but add math with biology and you have a winner..... so I figured out something rather interesting (I'm clearly not the first to realise the below statement by the way, but tonight was the first time I figured it out, so it was somewhat a personal revalation).
So....
I have 2 parents....and they both had 2 parents....and they in turn had 2 parents.... so if I go back 3 generations, there are 8 people who contributed to my genetic code, how awesome is that?! .......... Not so much, the problem is, if we take this mathematical logic back to ONLY 32 generations ago, my (and indeed everyone else's as this isn't a special case) genetic code must have logically come from circa 6 billion 'parents'.......... which is a number larger than the current population of the planet.........
........ Conclusion? - we're all members of a genetically non-diversified, INBRED species and we're all technically related
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The history of England concerns the study of the human past in one of Europe's oldest and most influential national territories. What is now England, a country within the United Kingdom, was inhabited by hominids 800,000 years ago as the discovery of flint tools at Happisburgh in Norfolk have revealed
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/science/08flint.html
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