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IrfanK

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I remember pondering on this when I was in front of some 30,000 year old cave paintings in South Sulawesi, with the numbers (quite literally) exponentially larger. I was trying to work out the likelihood that at least one of my direct lineal ancestors had been involved in it. In fact, you have to factor in inbreeding. There just wouldn't be enough people on the earth 30,000 years ago to create the current cohort without it.
 

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In fact, you have to factor in inbreeding.

About five years ago, I had my DNA done by 23andMe, and their first results showed that I was 99.09 percent European and 0.01 percent 'broadly Asian'. This made me wonder, could I be a direct descendent of Genghis Khan?

I never did the math to find out which generation would have accounted for this 0.01%, however, I did use this as a valid (and highly accurate) reason for my deep and abiding knowledge of the Yijing, and I considered using this as a reason (or an excuse) to select 'other' instead of 'white' when asked to provide this type of personal information.

Along with this information about my ancestry (or should I say 'incestry'?), 23andMe also informed me that because of my percentage of Neanderthal genes, I was less likely to sneeze when around dark chocolate - and on this particular point, they are highly accurate! *** Update: 23andMe has since changed me to 100% European, but I do not consider this new dfreed v2.1 to be an upgrade, nor an improvement! Instead I will proudly cling to my Mongolian roots and heritage!

Of course this notion of inbreeding didn't end with human's first appearance as a species. From the Irish Independent.ie:
Neolithic man buried in Newgrange (Ireland) was inbred as part of 'strong ruling elite':
A team of archaeologists and geneticists, led by Trinity College Dublin, have shed startling new light on the earliest periods of Ireland's human history. Our earliest Neolithic society (around 5000 years ago) had an elite ruling social class similar to Inca god-kings and Egyptian Pharaohs, and they were allowed to interbreed.​

And if we need further proof, just look at Game of Thrones, where Queen Cersei has been involved in an incestuous affair with her twin brother, Jaime Lannister, since childhood! You 'Game of Thrones' fans know what I'm talking about!

If Irfan's theory about inbreeding is correct, it means the diviners and shamans whom created the Yi are also inbred - which may account for why they came up with such a quirky and confusing oracle. And no good - nor clarity - could have come from this inbreeding, mixed with ingesting magic mushrooms, as some have suggested of the Yi's early shamans.

I assume this inbreeding would apply to other species as well: I just stepped out onto my porch to see how the day is unfolding - I startled a half dozen Mourning doves in the nearby bushes. And a squirrel is up in the Douglas fir trees next to my house, dropping fir cones onto my home for some reason.

Inbreds All I say!
 
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