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Strange Thought: We are all related to Hitler
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2016 Jul 5, 9:31pm 1,963 views 8 comments
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Dan8267
2016 Jul 6, 7:21am
Like it or not, all humans are related.
Yep, and it doesn't stop with humans. You are related to every living organism on the planet even banana trees. Every creature is literally your Nth cousin for some small value of N < a googol. Damn, it feels weird spelling googol instead of Google, but I mean the number.
Sadly, this fact means we are all related to Call It Crazy as well. That's embarrassing even for Hitler.
Patrick
2016 Jul 6, 8:44am
You are related to every living organism on the planet
It's possible that microbial life on earth could have arisen several times.
Dan8267
2016 Jul 6, 9:00am
It's possible that microbial life on earth could have arisen several times.
True, but early life exchanged genetic code frequently. There were no species barriers. So even if life arouse in thousands of places at about the same time, the sharing of genetic code would make them all your ancestors.
It's only when some cells mutated to have membranes that were non-permeable to DNA that they stopped leaking their genetic code to other cooperators/competitors. Then life switched from cooperation to competition.
Also, all this happened when life was far less sophisticated than it is today, even microbial life. So no such primitive organism still exists. All current life is descendant from organisms after this great shift and thus all modern life has a set of common ancestors.
Hitler's not the problem. Democrats & Republicans in the family tree are.
Might be time to consider suicide & be buried in an unmarked grave out of shame
for one's ancestors.
Trump or Clinton,now that's a WTF!
Like it or not, all humans are related. We all have common ancestors, and are therefore cousins. We may be closer or more remote cousins, but there is no escaping the fact of our genetic relationship. Europeans are much closer relatives to Hitler than Asians or Africans, but it's still only a matter of degree, not principle.
So... we're all related to Hitler. The thought just struck me as kinda funny.
#strange