Re: Ancestors and descendants

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/22/00 2:59:23 PM EST, NJPharris@aol.com writes:

<< That is an interesting question, and I feel it is best resolved by turning 
it 
 around: are my descendants a thousand generations removed more closely 
 related to me, or to my parents and siblings?  The answer, as I think is 
 fairly obvious, is that they are more closely related to me >>

This answers the question of whether your 1000-descendants are more closely 
related to you or to your parents, but it does >not< answer the question of 
whether >you< are more closely related to them than to your parents and 
siblings. You are only one or two generations removed from your parents and 
siblings, but you are 1000 generations removed from your remote descendants, 
so you >must< be more closely related to your parents than to those remote 
descendants. Just because >they< are more remote from your parents than you 
are doesn't mean that >you< are more remote from your parents than you are 
from them.