EPISODE · Dec 25, 2025 · 4 MIN
The Ancestor Paradox
from MinuteEarth · host Minute Earth
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Genealogy: a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. Genetic ancestor: a person from whom an individual is biologically descended Genetic ancestry: the genetic origin of a person's population, and the specific lines of descent through which they inherited DNA from their ancestors. Pedigree: the recorded ancestry, especially upper-class ancestry, of a person or family. Pedigree collapse: a term used in genealogy to describe when the number of distinct ancestors in a family tree is smaller than it would be otherwise. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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