--- Alberto said: the chance > of two humans being genetically equal in a > population of 100 Giga people > would be 75% of a millionth! [namely: (1/6)^22 * > 100e6 ]
I agree that there's almost no chance that GK would be exactly duplicated. On the other hand, with millions of descendants re-breeding with each other, what are the odds that the IMPORTANT salient traits that made him great would not only re-emerge, but be reinforced and possibly enhanced? Another way to think of it. A population varies in many traits, in each case across a distribution with a central mean. GK in effect shifted the mean distributions of many traits TOWARD his values. Subsequent births should have increased the appearance of those traits with variation around new averages... including some individuals at the wings who were more Genghiz than Genghiz ever was. And yet, that did not happen. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
