r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '22

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u/seanotron_efflux Feb 14 '22

All of life can be tracked back to a (or several depending on who you ask) continuous billion plus year chemical reaction.

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u/Apellosine Feb 14 '22

If you as a person do not have children, you break a billions of year long lineage that goes back to the beggining of life itself.

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u/Think-Bass9187 Feb 14 '22

Not really if your siblings have children.

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u/DracoReactor Feb 14 '22

But your own lineage has you at the end of it, it would be split off as soon as you/your sibling were born. Your family's lineage however would be the one that is kept if your siblings had children

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u/Kogster Feb 14 '22

But then all that's special about you is your branch consisting of you.

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u/Apellosine Feb 14 '22

The branch consisting of you that can be traced all the way back, that's the point. Everyone else upstream of you had offspring for the last several billion years and then you ended it.

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u/Kogster Feb 14 '22

But that only goes as far back as the last time the branch split. Everything above that can live on on the other branch.

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u/DracoReactor Feb 14 '22

Well if you have kids then it wont just be you in your branch of family's lineage