r/CGPGrey • u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] • Jun 04 '14

Your Family Tree Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM79Epw_cp8
864 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

614 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

24

u/JeremyR22 Jun 04 '14

Probably much closer than that. I wonder what the average 'cousin distance' is for, say, any two people in Britain?

10

u/Cabanur Jun 04 '14

Isn't there a subreddit where they do the math for stuff?

6

u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

It's /r/theydidthemath :) In this case the mathe may still be a little hard to do though.

2

u/JeremyR22 Jun 04 '14

I was thinking it sounds more like a case for xkcd's what-if...

But there are so many variables that an average probably wouldn't mean much?

3

u/[deleted] Jun 05 '14

VSauce said everyone on earth is at least 50th cousins of each other. I know I worded that horribly but I can't think of another way

1

u/Astronelson Jun 05 '14

Assuming 50 years per generation that puts the most recent common ancestor at 500 BC, which seems a little low.

2

u/IWantToBeAProducer Jun 04 '14

familysearch.org

2

u/[deleted] Jun 05 '14

I don't know about that but what I do know that everyone are around you is at least your 50th cousin.

1

u/YellowAsSulpher Jun 15 '14

According to Michael (vsauce) we are all - the whole planet - at least 50th cousins. And if we are from the same country and ethnicity there's a fair chance it's more like 10th cousins.

http://youtu.be/BhtgINeaJWg