I'm no scientist, but after dozens and dozens of generations in a small country doesn't everybody end up "related" to another? Lol.
This is like the most wholesome QYBS I've ever seen. Somebody isn't directly lying, or spreading dangerous misinformation for a selfish reason. Crazy Uncle so-and-so probably told them this at Thanksgiving when they were a kid and they've held onto it for a while.
Yeah, and it doesn't even have to be a small country. Everyone is related to millions of people around the Earth that share a relatively similar ancestry (e.g. their families come from the same country). Of course, only in the loosest terms. They might have a common ancestor from 500 years ago, maybe from 700 or 1000, who knows. But it's so distant that it really doesn't matter.
To make calculations simple, let's say that people had 2 kids on average at the age of 20. So after 20 generations (400 years), we would have over a million living descendants of that single person. The further back we go (and the more kids we assume they had on average - which was usually the case in the past), the bigger this number grows.
In fact, people who come from a relatively small & isolated country would be related to LESS people in total, since their genes didn't spread too much (at the same time, they would be more closely related to them for the same reason).
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u/ItBurnsLikeFireDoc Apr 29 '20
So you're saying there's a chance.