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We’re all related in someway, but how far back does that relation go, and are we related to anyone famous?
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The pyramids were not built by any of our ancestors but by our descendants.
i'm a little confused; don't sub-saharan africans not have any neanderthal DNA? neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago, which means the common ancestor of sub-saharn africans and non- sub-saharan africans had to have been before then and before humans left africa. humans also were in the americas 14,000 years ago or something, way before the projected date of mitochonrdial eve/y-chromosome adam. unless i'm misunderstanding??
4:42 "But humans don't mate randomly." Speak for yourself!
When he said we have to use math i was like "i thought we were already using math?"
I doubt this is close to accurate. I would like to see the family tree that connects the Sentinelese people to the Olmec's descendants.
This is a farce at best because you have to look at and take into account the astrological position of the pyramids. Originating in the time of Leo, 25000 years is a long time to trace back ancenstry, especially since recorded history only started 2000 years ago.
No. My ancestors are Yoruba, not Egyptian.
I think we ascribe waaay too much meaning into "ancestors". It's just the carrier of a few of your genes, which a random person somewhere else likely also developed through some mutation. They literally have no meaning to us. We should be happy that they procreated and managed to keep their kid alive, though.
Frank. Frank is the name of our most recent common ancestor
Statistically, considering how many women had children by both Genghis Khan and Ramesses II, what is the likely hood that more than one person alive right now is a descendent of both lineages?
What's a non biological female?
I really appreciate SciShow for using the phrase ‘biological male/female’. As a nonbinary person it is so refreshing to hear.
Thank you yet again SciShow (:
The pyramids are far more older than we can even fathom the Great Sphinx itself has water erosion above its head the last time water was at high was about a 250000-500000 years ago.
I went to nursing school in the mid-90s and more A&P when I went back to increase my educational level and still I didn’t learn until last year that the HALF of genes we get from each parent, are random!
bad history
Super unlikely, but there could be a possibility that for everyone who work on the pyramids their lines may have ended.
Everyone has ancestors; not everyone has descendants.
No. I'm native Alaskan. I'm sure it was somebody's ancestors though.
It is hard to see how isolated populations all over the would could be descended from someone that recent. E.g. Aboriginal Australians have been there and genetically isolated for tens of thousands of years. People got to North America at least 10k years ago. It doesn't make sense that they both share an ancestor who lived in 1400 BCE
does this genetic tracking process still work for/include intersex people who can express x and y chromosomes differently from the "usual" xx and xy?
Did this guy just say 'biological female'? ?
What about people on North Sentinel Island?
Ok some of that went way over my head but cool
Understood the conclusion at least phew
i a annoyed to be huan. i wish i was a dog.
Biological (fe)male is redundant.
I appreciate SciShow, but I feel like this video needs a follow up. The take away statement is that everyone alive today could share a common ancestor 2000 years ago? That… seems extremely unlikely. Like so unlikely that this might be the first SciShow video that I would feel uncomfortable saying “did you know” around the proverbial water cooler. I would like to have more information on the model used to make these claims.
reads title
I'm Jewish. I know my ancestors did because they were slaves in Egypt.
Crazy how that person could’ve been Jesus
How can the most common ancestor of all humans be from around 2000 years ago when there humans in the Americas as early as 10,000 years ago?
lol right at the top of the video you were talking about dna testing and my brain immediately shouted "but why not math" and it turns out math was the super special secret guest behind the curtain
Charity sponsoring videos, sus
4:06 – if there are millions of lineages connecting to the actual most recent common ancestor, who lived more recently than mitochondrial "Eve" or Y-chromosomal "Adam", doesn't that mean there's at least as many lineages connecting to either Adam or Eve going through the most recent common ancestor?
As someone who grew up in a Jewish family, this title felt pretty clickbaity 😛 (though it's probably clickbaity regardless)
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