Have you ever thought about those to whom you are related? Of
course you have, but maybe not in this way.
We all have four grandparents, eight great grandparents, etc.
This geometric progression continues as we go back from generation to
generation until, in about 1400 AD it equals the entire population of
the human species at that time. In other words, each of us is related
to everyone else if we look back far enough.
Similarly, if we go forward, from children to grandchildren etc.,
making some reasonable assumptions and using the current projections
for the future human population, our direct progeny will equal
everyone living in about 2900 AD. If we include in this calculation
brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins, we will be related to
everyone living in about 2700 AD.
So at present we seem least related to friends, neighbors, and
those in our community and country. But in fact we are all related. It
is just that it seems now that we’re not. Would it change anything if
we but acknowledged our relationship to everyone, ancestors and
descendants? Jim
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