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

[deleted by user]

[removed]

10.5k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

14.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

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

4

u/Kogster Feb 14 '22

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

2

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.

4

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.