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What do you and the King of Thailand have in common?

By khurrum1 ⋅ July 3, 2006 ⋅ ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

You both are related! Actually, everyone is related.

 Every Palestinian suicide bomber has Jews in his past. Every Sunni Muslim in Iraq is descended from at least one Shiite. And every Klansman’s family has African roots.

“No matter the languages we speak or the color of our skin, we share ancestors who planted rice on the banks of the Yangtze, who first domesticated horses on the steppes of the Ukraine, who hunted giant sloths in the forests of North and South America, and who labored to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu,” Olson and his colleagues wrote in the journal Nature.

There is a mathematical certainty that due to human migratory patterns and due to the nature of a family trees exponential growth that every single human shares common ancestors with everyone. If you go back in time far enough (5000 B.C.) we will be able to find a person who is a common ancestor to every single human being alive today!

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Note: If you are the king of Thailand then please ignore the title. And oh yeah… please tell all your subjects to visit gargles.net. kthx bai!)

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