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0 pointsasdfman1235y ago0 comments

Just to get pedantic, aren't we all relatives if you go back 1000+ years?

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As I understand it, the strict definition of Jewish descent is purely. You have to go back around 100-200k years to reach the most recent common matrilineal ancestor, and I'm reasonably confident she was not Jewish.

asdfman123OP5y ago

How many ancestors you have it just a function of how many generations you look back, and with each successive generations it doubles. At some point in the past, the entire world is your ancestor.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/all-europeans-are-relate...

tw045y ago

100-200k years? Based on... what? Judaism's earliest trace lies at about 1500BC... so not even close to 100k years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Judaism

ricree5y ago

Sorry for being unclear. I meant the most recent matrilineal ancestor for all of humanity, not for Judaism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

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ricree5y ago

asdfman123OP5y ago

How many ancestors you have it just a function of how many generations you look back, and with each successive generations it doubles. At some point in the past, the entire world is your ancestor.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/all-europeans-are-relate...

tw045y ago

100-200k years? Based on... what? Judaism's earliest trace lies at about 1500BC... so not even close to 100k years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Judaism

ricree5y ago

Sorry for being unclear. I meant the most recent matrilineal ancestor for all of humanity, not for Judaism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

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