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Originally Posted by cam_girls
Julius Ceasar may be your great grand pop, but not because of Ancestry.com
60 generations having 2 kids each means 2^60 people are also descendants of Ceasar, and everyone else alive 2000 years ago.
2^60 = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 people
There's only 7,000,000,000 population, so practically everyone is a descendant of Julius Ceasar.
Unless you're living in a remote pygmy village then yes you are the descendant of J. C.
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Jesus' Descendants
Probability theory tells us, however, that if Jesus had any children, his biological line would almost certainly have either died out after relatively few generations, or else would have grown exponentially so that many millions of people alive today would be direct descendants of Jesus.
Of course, this is not a special trait of Jesus' descendants. If Julius Caesar's children and their descendants had not died out, then many millions of people alive today could claim themselves Caesar's descendants. The same can be said of the evil Caligula and of countless anonymous people living 2000 years ago. It is not impossible to have just a few descendants after 2000 years, but the likelihood is less than minuscule.
The research behind these conclusions, growing out of a subdiscipline of probability theory known as branching theory, is part of the work of Joseph Chang, a Yale statistician, and Steve Olson, author of "Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins."
Going back another millennium, we can state something even more astonishing. If anyone alive in 1000 B.C. has any present day descendants, then we would all be among them. That is, we are descended from all the Europeans, Asians, Africans and others who lived 3,000 years ago and have descendants living today.
Consider the implications for future generations. If you have children and if your biological line doesn't die out, then every human being on earth 2,000 or 3,000 years from now would be your direct descendant.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/sto...2019650&page=1