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How many human ancestors does a present-day person have? Is there a large variance in this statistic?

April 26, 2017ancestors Biology Human large Mathematics person present-day statistic variance

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How many human ancestors does a present-day person have? Is there a large variance in this statistic?

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If you simply mean ancestors in the sense of parents, grandparents, etc, you only need to go back 50 generations for the number of people who have contributed to your genetic make up to run into many millions.