EVERY baby is a ROYAL baby

EVERY baby is a ROYAL baby - Numberphile

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Dr James Grime discusses ancestry and why we ALL have royal blood. See also our new video on family extinction at: • Will your name become ...
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@numberphile 5 жыл бұрын

See also our new video on family extinction at: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJlki8t2mtW2p6M.html

@randomdude9135 5 жыл бұрын

Can you somehow interview Mr Perelman?

@heliocentric1756 5 жыл бұрын

5:59 I spotted same-gender marriage ... with kids 😂

@darthgorthaur258 5 жыл бұрын

Probably related to everyone but the hapsberg line cous we all know they didn't look very far for mates if you catch my drift...

@Rekko82 5 жыл бұрын

Can someone have two biological mothers? What if someone has a child with an alien?

@timgheys 5 жыл бұрын

@@heliocentric1756 Accidents happen? ;)

@CorghVosc 5 жыл бұрын

"Mommy, how are babies born?" Mother: "We roll dice and a baby appears."

@numberphile 5 жыл бұрын

Keeping it family friendly.

@ludvercz 5 жыл бұрын

You got that backwards. That's how parents are born.

@Gastyz 5 жыл бұрын

Actually, babies are born based on your charisma roll

@seanpeacock4290 5 жыл бұрын

Playing a bit of d&d in bed. Now I know why some people are so against d&d. Bunch of prudes

@KanalDerGutenSache 5 жыл бұрын

*This is what mathmaticians actually believe

@devonstein7464 5 жыл бұрын

It's always nice to see my distant cousins making great video's!

@davidwarren7279 5 жыл бұрын

@Sandcastle • My not so distant cousin does that sometimes!

@JamB-zo1ln 5 жыл бұрын

@Sandcastle • I do that sometimes

@Maarrii94 5 жыл бұрын

I think it’s nice to see my distant cousins back each other up.

@shyaroary2758 5 жыл бұрын

Hi fam

@martiddy 4 жыл бұрын

Now that I think about it, we all are at some point distant relatives of people like Albert Einstein or Abraham Lincoln. Though, that could mean that we are also distant relatives of Hitler so...

@davevaness4172 2 жыл бұрын

My Uncle was very proud of the the fact that he was 8,527 in line to be the King of England ,if people died in a specific order. He got depressed when someone died in the wrong order and he went up to well over 12,000 in line. He said he now had no real chance.

@demonking86420 Жыл бұрын

"died in the wrong order" huh?

@davevaness4172 Жыл бұрын

@@demonking86420 Yes so depressing!

@MalcolmCooks Жыл бұрын

i think it would be the funniest detective show ever if it turned out someone was killing 8527 people in a specific order so they could become king

@yuriydiakunchak2400 Жыл бұрын

@@davevaness4172😮

@leftylizard9085 11 ай бұрын

If you're 8,527th in line to the throne, it shouldn't matter if someone further down the line dies. Your position in the line of succession remains the same. It only changes if someone higher up the totem pole than you dies, in which case, you get bumped up a spot to 8,526th.

@artoriassif3728 5 жыл бұрын

The way this man pronounces sloth is so unimaginably British I started crying tea

@loveitloud100 3 жыл бұрын

aaahaahahahahahaaaaa

@jubileeYAVEL 2 жыл бұрын

You made me laugh

@ahmadmazbouh Жыл бұрын

LOL

@MichaelSotoCE Жыл бұрын

When did he say?

@alex.t76 Жыл бұрын

@@MichaelSotoCE 18:23

@markorezic3131 5 жыл бұрын

"Virgin birth once every 2000 years" I see what you did there Brady

@SunriseFireberry 5 жыл бұрын

tricky

@jlivewell 5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Funniest line ive heard in awhile!

@TheFilipFonky 5 жыл бұрын

That doesn't make any sense though because there wasn't another virgin birth in the year 2000, either real or religious

@jamirimaj6880 5 жыл бұрын

@Superstar Banana Mix ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?!?!?!

@imveryangryitsnotbutter 5 жыл бұрын

@@jamirimaj6880 I feel like we would have heard about it by now.

@Pining_for_the_fjords 5 жыл бұрын

Great, I'll tell Elizabeth that I'm moving in next week.

@daniel_77. 11 ай бұрын

not anymore...

@talkalexis 10 ай бұрын

not anymore...

@Triantalex 8 ай бұрын

@alexandermcclure6185 4 ай бұрын

@@Triantalex what happened to QE? that's a little hint for you.

@Purcader222 5 жыл бұрын

"Everyone has 8 great grandparents" *Charles II has left the chat*

@alphamikeomega5728 5 жыл бұрын

*of Spain

@EmpressMermaid 5 жыл бұрын

There are still 8 great grandparents, just not necessarily 8 different people. LOL. Some repeats

@y33t23 4 жыл бұрын

*House of Habsburg is typing...*

@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 4 жыл бұрын

*Ptolemaics are typing*

@leftylizard9085 2 жыл бұрын

Not true. Charles II had 8 separate great grandparents. On his father's side he had Phillip II, Anne of Austria, Charles II, and Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551-1608). On his mother's side he had Phillip III, Margarita of Austria,. Ferdinand II, and Maria Anna of Bavaria, (1574-1616). That is 8 separate people. The only name that shows up twice is Maria Anna of Bavaria, and those were two different Maria Anna's of Bavaria since they were born in different years and died in different years. Phillip III may have been his grandfather on his father's side and his great-grandfather on his mother's side, but he still nevertheless did not have a great-grandparent on his mother's side who was also his great-grandparent on his father's side. So he still technically had 8 different great-grandparents. Some of those were also his grandparents, but he still did ultimately have eight great-grandparents in total.

@rodrigo2070 5 жыл бұрын

8:04 'People like you and me are never gonna marry..' *Confused look* 'a princess'

@samuelthecamel 4 жыл бұрын

*LGBT community has left the chat*

@kdawg3484 5 жыл бұрын

Who cares about being royal? A ton of us are related to James Grime.

@mattsadventureswithart5764 5 жыл бұрын

*And* Matt Parker!

@mattsadventureswithart5764 5 жыл бұрын

*AND* Hannah Fry!

@whatevernamegoeshere3644 5 жыл бұрын

@@mattsadventureswithart5764 maybe it's just a parker relation

@darealpoopster 5 жыл бұрын

kdawg3484 Even my dog is.

@I_am_a_cat_ 5 жыл бұрын

I never understood why people care so much about them. They're a relic of the past, and basically it's just a rich family that doesn't have to do anything, and get praised for it. They pretty much just won the human lottery, basically.

@timgheys 5 жыл бұрын

I am NOT hosting the next family dinner!

@Lillith. 5 жыл бұрын

I know, it's your cousin.

@2019inuyasha 5 жыл бұрын

if you do host us please remember your most fancy dinner ware set because we are all royalty...LOL

@timgheys 5 жыл бұрын

@@Lillith. which one?

@Lillith. 5 жыл бұрын

@@timgheys can't spell his name, it's Arabic. I believe he lives in Yemen near the border with Oman.

@timgheys 5 жыл бұрын

@@Lillith. Hmmm. No. Not even close.

@sketcharmslong6289 4 жыл бұрын

"Only 3 generations for everyone to be related." Welcome to Wales

@vernie7882 4 жыл бұрын

”Only 1 generation for everyone to be related.” Welcome to Texas

@joshlim7389 4 жыл бұрын

“Everyone is related.” Welcome to Alabama

@diannecombs8433 3 жыл бұрын

Move to a rural county in USA, I learned that when I started teaching, everyone is related.

@oz_jones 3 жыл бұрын

@@vernie7882 *Pakistan

@xinpingdonohoe3978 2 жыл бұрын

"Everyone is the same person." Welcome to China

@domesticcat1725 5 жыл бұрын

Genghis Khan: I have 16 million direct descendants! Some random Zhou dynasty citizen: cool, I have 7 billion

@suwinkhamchaiwong8382 5 жыл бұрын

lol

@D4rk3clipse 4 жыл бұрын

Adam and Eve: Am I a joke to you?

@UncleKennysPlace 4 жыл бұрын

@@D4rk3clipse Reply: no, just a fable.

@PGraveDigger1 4 жыл бұрын

@@jellyfishi_ Nah, it's pretty much a fable. It's a nice story, but just a story.

@user-yg4en5mv2j 4 жыл бұрын

@@PGraveDigger1 yeah, humans didn't just appear out of nowhere, evolution did it

@michaeldmingo1525 5 жыл бұрын

Who has more desendants than Genghus Khan? . . . . . . . . Genghus Khans Dad.

@gregmagee9403 5 жыл бұрын

someone from Africa the birthplace of humanity

@lyrimetacurl0 5 жыл бұрын

A mouse from the Cretaceous period

@neilisbored2177 5 жыл бұрын

A veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery small single-celled organism 2 billion years ago.

@BestbankTiger 5 жыл бұрын

Antonio Cromartie?

@darealpoopster 5 жыл бұрын

NeilIsBored How about 4 billion years ago.

@HDScorpio 5 жыл бұрын

I love that it's in James' nature to draw the whole thing out, I feel like someone like Matt Parker would program something in python and animate it.

@molamola8305 4 жыл бұрын

Everytime a baby is born James rolls his dice.

@arjunpathak1417 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@matttondr9282 2 жыл бұрын

*Everytime James rolls his dice, a baby is born.

@alexandermcclure6185 4 ай бұрын

@@matttondr9282 no, he determined the baby's parents with dice, not the child

@biggpete100 5 жыл бұрын

I asked this question on Stack Exchange a few months ago, and nobody had the answer. Numberphile with the win! Thank you!

@unclvinny 5 жыл бұрын

I believe in you, Brady! You’re totally gonna marry a princess!

@crazycolbster 5 жыл бұрын

Unless he suddenly starts practicing polygamy, I've got some bad news for you...

@thoperSought 5 жыл бұрын

@@crazycolbster by the logic of this video, isn't he already married to a princess, then?

@Paplefication 5 жыл бұрын

"Virgin birth every 2000 years" "Let's imagine free movement in Europe" I did not expect such scathing burns in a maths video

@LucruxDCLXVI 5 жыл бұрын

@CogitoErgoCogitoSum Low quality bait. Come on man

@JohnBehrens118 5 жыл бұрын

@LucruxDCLXVI Agreed - low effort trolling. Anyone who falls for this guy's trollbait is a smooth brained buffoon.

@rs-tarxvfz 5 жыл бұрын

That's not virgin birth but Homosexual birth.

@jaxblonk5127 5 жыл бұрын

@@rs-tarxvfz Aight, care to explain how that'd work? asking for a friend.

@FxBrour 5 жыл бұрын

@@rs-tarxvfz Yeah please do I´ve been trying to get preggos from my bf but his manjuice always comes out of my boipussy when i am going on the shitter.

@TheZotmeister 5 жыл бұрын

"That's such a beautiful sentiment to end with." [video immediately ends]

@booksquid856 5 жыл бұрын

Why do these things really get my funny bone?! 😄Lol!!

@itsiwhatitsi 5 жыл бұрын

0.001 seconds to think about that beautiful sentiment

@djadj_ 5 жыл бұрын

*talks about how we're all slightly inbred* "but that doesn't show that we're all descended from royalty" - it doesn't, but it's always a sign that you're getting close

@slightlokii3191 5 жыл бұрын

I moved to Australia 8 years ago and I though I was the only person in my family over here. I got a job as a cook in a small town and was talking to the sous chef. My family lived in England for 3 generations and before that my ancestry is wales. Well it turns out my sous chefs ancestry was also welsh about 4 years ago and they lived in the next town over from my ancestors (literally just 2-3km away) so we’re most likely related within 6 generations

@mastod0n1 Жыл бұрын

There could very well be a descendant of a great great great great great great great great great great grandparent or uncle that was shipped off to Australia when it was a penal colony. A little farther removed than your example but I bet you have some very distant relatives living in Australia.

@truthteller4689 5 жыл бұрын

So 7000 years ago, they are all my ancestors. But presumably, some of them (the ones that look like more like me) are my ancestors several hundred times over whereas some of them are my ancestor only once.

@brcoutme 5 жыл бұрын

Actually you left out the part where many of them are not related to you, its just that they are also not related to anyone else alive today. Otherwise, yeah you probably have more ways your related to some people than others (whom your related to) from 7,000 years ago. As they said though this modal is somewhat limited when referring to large populations where movement is restricted. For example we know that in Europe most people are related to Neanderthals with about 3% dna from them, while in Asia only 1%-2%, and in Africa almost none. That would imply that some amount of Europeans from only 7,000 are probably are not the ancestors of most of today Africans. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something (could be that dna reading technology is just too poor to identify these weak relationships like the one time connection you were mentioning).

@aceman0000099 5 жыл бұрын

You could continue this series for all of the animal kingdom. It would probably be billions of years ago but still

@rdizzy1 5 жыл бұрын

@@aceman0000099 Yes, we actually know many of these transitional species and many of the original ancestral species as well.

@aceman0000099 5 жыл бұрын

@@rdizzy1 yeah obviously but that's not exactly what I mean

@MegaTenser 5 жыл бұрын

@@brcoutme 7000 years is about 200 generations so you would have 2^200 ancestors (including the duplicates) from that generation. The number is so much larger than the world's population, you can't even begin to think in terms of a percentage of DNA. For Neanderthals we are going back another thousand generations before that. If you consider the spread of Islam and Christianity through Africa, it's not hard to imagine them having some European and Middle Eastern ancestors.

@rmartinsYT 5 жыл бұрын

"And so, I checked all the registered historical facts And I was shocked into shame to discover How I'm the eighteenth pale descendant Of some old queen or other"

@me2143658709 4 жыл бұрын

We touched on this in one of my genetics classes. We also brought up the idea of ghost ancestors, people in your family tree whom you did not end up inheriting any DNA from, which I think is a bit trippy and a bit sad.

@bowietwombly5951 11 ай бұрын

Woah, you just blew my mind. 😮 I’d never considered that before! I wonder how far back you have to go before that becomes possible?

@HunterJE 2 ай бұрын

@@bowietwombly5951 "Possible" or "probable?" You have half the genome from each of your parents, who each got half from each of their parents. While astronomically improbable, it is possible for you to get from a parent exactly the half they got from one of their parents and none from the other, in which case you'd have zero genetic inheritance from a grandparent.

@sujimtangerines 5 жыл бұрын

Can we just take a minute to appreciate how Brady asks questions that usually seem to surprise his guests with his insight?

@DeoMachina 5 жыл бұрын

Honestly one of the more impressive things about these channels is how Brady can ask smart questions about subjects he's only learned about an hour ago

@Untoldanimations 5 жыл бұрын

M McCoy He is a journalist after all

@user-jr8rz7bx3v 5 жыл бұрын

Let's imagine there is free movement in Europe... haha XD

@firefish111 5 жыл бұрын

Except the UK Because *Brexit*

@lazergurka-smerlin6561 5 жыл бұрын

@@firefish111 That's the joke :P

@anathema2me4EVR 5 жыл бұрын

Let's not.

@Pining_for_the_fjords 5 жыл бұрын

Nigel Farage got triggered.

@itisALWAYSR.A. 5 жыл бұрын

Too soon

@odnlva 5 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love Dr James Grime! Thanks, Numberphile

@mariaannakarga1564 5 жыл бұрын

You guys are AMAZING! Great work and always fun at the same time!

@AlabasterJazz 5 жыл бұрын

More like a Family Mycelium than a Family Tree

@toucaninterieur8011 5 жыл бұрын

A family spaghetti

@davidkonevky7372 4 жыл бұрын

It's a family soup

@Diesel257 3 жыл бұрын

As a mycophile, I can't believe I've been using "inosculated family tree" to describe it!🧐🍄😆

@madeformario 5 жыл бұрын

so if everyone's related... **sweet home Alabama starts playing**

@flekkzo 5 жыл бұрын

MadeForMario Well someone had to make up for Genghis Kahn to not mess up the nice mathematical model.

@heyandy889 5 жыл бұрын

this meme needs to stop, it is hurtful and not funny.

@madeformario 5 жыл бұрын

@@heyandy889 let me guess, you're from Alabama?

@heyandy889 5 жыл бұрын

@@madeformario Nope. Midwest. I just don't think it's funny to make fun of an entire state for something as rare and repulsive as incest.

@TheOfficialCzex 5 жыл бұрын

It's funny because incest is legal in Rhode Island, barring marriage, but a felony in Alabama.

@joachimmergeay 3 жыл бұрын

this was brilliantly explained in plain language. I've been struggling as a population geneticist to explain to my students how to easily grasp the concept 'time to most recent common ancestor' from the N, this nails it.

@FredCondo 5 жыл бұрын

This was both astounding and deeply moving.

@rhesus877 5 жыл бұрын

*plot twist* Everyone that appeared in Numberphile is related in a way

@paystation4pro15 5 жыл бұрын

This is the type of positivity I need.

@tomservo5007 5 жыл бұрын

? how is this positive? I doubt the majority of the women had a choice in the matter. Being raped by a stranger or your boss is not a positive act.

@brace5138 5 жыл бұрын

@@tomservo5007 what

@lyrimetacurl0 5 жыл бұрын

No, the real message is: "If you reproduce, you will be an ancestor of everyone in the future. If you don't reproduce, you will be an ancestor of no one in the future. Therefore if you don't reproduce then you have no reason to care about anyone in any way whatsoever, no matter what."

@y33t23 4 жыл бұрын

*Genghis Khan is typing...* *House of Habsburg has joined the chat* *Alabama has liked this post*

@danhammond8406 2 жыл бұрын

Arkansas family tree is a 2x4 from lowes, no branches and kinda twisted

@awesomefeldmanfamily 4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about this for so long!! So glad i found this video!!

@SellymeYT 5 жыл бұрын

"If we were talking about a population of millions, then [virgin births] aren't going to happen" "Once every 2000 years maybe" There are very few things that make me chuckle like a Numberphile video cutting right after Brady tries to make a joke.

@JohnSmith-ho8yb 5 жыл бұрын

I may just be ignorant, but I don’t get the joke

@fogease 5 жыл бұрын

Kapil Kakodkar Biblical Mary

@suokkos 5 жыл бұрын

Too bad joke is incorrect. If you have larger population then virgin birth per person is less likely but you have much more birth events per generation balancing the probability. virgin birth per person is 1/n but to get probability for no virgin birth per generation you need to calculate (1-1/n)^n which would mean about 37% chance for no virgin birth in a large population.

@SellymeYT 5 жыл бұрын

@@suokkos Your formula is right (assuming consistently sized generations), but your conclusion is a bit off. For positive integers, (1-1/n)^n starts at 0.25 (n=2, the smallest generation size for which this discussion is meaningful). As you say, the limit of f(n) is ~= a 36.7879% chance (1/e) of no virgin births in an arbitrarily large population. This means that population size increasing DOES slightly decrease the chances per generation (although in all cases it's still more likely than not).

@suokkos 5 жыл бұрын

@@SellymeYT , It does slightly decrees but clear decrees happens only for a few smallest and after that probability of no virgin birth is growing only very slightly with population size growth. So population size 6 is already close to same as population size of a million where both except to see no virgin birth approximately every 3rd year.

@AstarasCreator 5 жыл бұрын

The world's most recent common ancestor is from East Asia? Soo... Genghis Kahn?

@joryjones6808 5 жыл бұрын

I think it was in 200 bce from the coast of south east Asia but still that man did spread his seed.

@agfd5659 5 жыл бұрын

How do you know that? Can you share any sources?

@stephenderry9488 5 жыл бұрын

Everyone whose family has been in Europe for more than a handful of generations is (almost certainly) descended from Genghis Khan. Most of Asia too though it's a bit more complicated there.

@baronDioxid 5 жыл бұрын

He, Reiter - ho, Leute - he, Reiter, immer weiter...

@MusicalRaichu 5 жыл бұрын

@@agfd5659 sources of his seed? don't you know about that stuff yet?

@sonder3739 5 жыл бұрын

Really love it.And the ending too!

@adammoore7554 5 жыл бұрын

Exceptionally well done,. You spioke to two things that I enjoy very much: genealogy and mathematics. Btw, my own parents have a common ancestor about 400 years based on what I can document today.

@ScienceClic 5 жыл бұрын

Actually there's another problem with the model. Let's imagine individuals 1,2 and 3 have the respective parents (1,2), (2,3), and (1,3). If parents 1 and 2 have been able to make a child, as well as parents 2 and 3, then parents 1 and 3 could not have been able to reproduce. I wonder if it impacts the model a lot or if it disappears for large population sizes...

@numberphile 5 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure the 6 person thing is a HUGE simplification (so the dice works and we can actually draw it) to simply understand the model. You have to imagine this with millions of people, much more complicated connections and those issues being eliminated.

@unfetteredparacosmian 5 жыл бұрын

Just add a gender mechanic -inb4 triggered sjw's-

@Sluppie 5 жыл бұрын

You could "solve" this problem by saying that each number actually represents a gender pair of siblings (one male one female)... ............. Actually let's not do that. Let's not do that at all.

@SM321_ 3 жыл бұрын

I think it matters, but it matters less than the other issues (like for example that people stayed in there village over generations in medieval times - the probability to marry a person in your town was more than 1000 times bigger than marrying sb from another country)

@General12th 3 жыл бұрын

@@unfetteredparacosmian hehehe it's funny cuz wait why would the SJWs get triggered over this? I'd think the Christian right would be much less happy.

@ZexionII 5 жыл бұрын

That quote James ended on is just the perfect argument against tribalism and racism :) In the end, we are all just people, shaped by our past, so no reason to spread hate.

@zdenekbobek1719 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Thank you, my great-grand-cousins for making this video.

@bogistrombus 5 жыл бұрын

Catchy title, excellent lecture. Thank you.

@kchorman 5 жыл бұрын

He missed the opportunity after the Virgin birth comment to say, "let's just roll with this."

@jamirimaj6880 5 жыл бұрын

wdym by that? sorry, non-native English speaker here

@EzraMable 5 жыл бұрын

@@jamirimaj6880 He is rolling dice to create his chart. The expression "roll with" means to go along with something unexpected, to adapt to it. So, he could have made a pun by saying, "Let's just roll with this [roll]."

@conexant51 4 жыл бұрын

Wow!.. what an amazing episode.👍

@LuisTorres-sq3xj Жыл бұрын

A very beautiful lesson.

@jcookev 5 жыл бұрын

This video really puts things into perspective. Thank you again Numberphile for your content.

@EladLerner 5 жыл бұрын

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” ― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

@ivar185 5 жыл бұрын

haha yes so let's all be nihilists nothing in life matters anyway we're just atoms floating around on a rock

@samuelthecamel 4 жыл бұрын

To back holes... uh... we have matter?

@PGraveDigger1 4 жыл бұрын

@@ivar185 We are. We construct our own meaning in life. Nihilsm isn't saying that there's no meaning in life, it says there's no intrinsic/inherent meaning in life.

@flipvansaksen774 5 жыл бұрын

Love your work !

@CampaignerSC 5 жыл бұрын

Whoa that ending sentiment is awesome!

@TigburtJones 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you numberphile for fulfilling the service of teaching and inspiring. It is very awesome to get to have new perspectives in life because passionate inspired souls put in the work and dedication to bring it to the uninformed. Thank you for your channel and the work you do.

@AsifMehedi 5 жыл бұрын

Well said.

@twint9 5 жыл бұрын

JAMES IS BACK

@DragonBornGirl50 4 жыл бұрын

I love this guy, need more vids and teachers like him with his humour and enthusiasm. He just knows his shit.

@adammcdaniel536 4 жыл бұрын

I love james! Hes barely changed at all since his first few videos YEARS back, he looks exactly the same!

@PassionPopsicle 5 жыл бұрын

This is so great to see! My grandfather was very into our ancestry, and he did a family tree for all of his grandkids, and concluded that I was a descendent of Charlemagne. I love that it's also the statistically likely outcome 😂

@TheTonyMcD 5 жыл бұрын

"Everyone has four grandparents" I know a few people that certainly don't....

@Funkopedia 4 жыл бұрын

They didn't directly mention it, but that's where the ancestors with multiple numbers come into play.

@aspiringscientificjournali1505 4 жыл бұрын

@@Funkopedia they said that

@diannecombs8433 3 жыл бұрын

I recently found a couple in my line who were children of twin sisters, married out of state, where it was probably more legal,,,,

@curtiswfranks 5 жыл бұрын

I also really appreciate the humor in this episode. And looking toward the future in this way is simultaneously awe-inspiring and terrifying. (I do not want my family to die out - especially if I am the reason for that!)

@GodlessPhilosopher 5 жыл бұрын

I love how Ronald Graham's explanation of Graham's number is framed in the background!

@fCauneau 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant !! Thanks so much !! In 1904 people tried to explain this to Tsar Nicolas II, but he got angry...

@kennethnorton3322 5 жыл бұрын

I think they didn't know about his is 1904

@youmaybebusy 5 жыл бұрын

Oh, THAT is why god does not play dice anymore. **rolls dice** "Aaaand this one get's to... oh.. no that is awkward. Errmmm, I did not think that one through, did I? Well, honesty might be the best course of action here. Gabriel? Could you be so kind to go down there and tell that woman, I kinda fucked things up? Yes, quickly please. NO, don't tell her *I* fu..., GABRIEL! ... Darned dice..."

@tristanridley1601 5 жыл бұрын

I love you, sir.

@megauser8512 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@MyMagicCookie6 4 жыл бұрын

This needs to be pinned

@breauken910 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job fam

@dl4350 5 жыл бұрын

this video is so powerful

@arthouse.17 5 жыл бұрын

dear cousins, what a lovely video! how I love maths and their prophets.

@yttrv8430 5 жыл бұрын

Kids, what have we learned today? It's impossible to escape incest.

@trolololo720 5 жыл бұрын

And if we tried to we'd go extinct in less than 33 generations.

@booksquid856 5 жыл бұрын

Lol!!

@the1exnay 5 жыл бұрын

CogitoErgoCogitoSum What bothers me more than your bad bait is your name. That second cogito is just- wrong

@gvigary1 5 жыл бұрын

The alternative to invest is bestiality.

@FxBrour 5 жыл бұрын

@@gvigary1 I´ve heard of diversifying your investments but this seems a step to far :D

@iambiggus 5 жыл бұрын

Grimes! Fav Numberphile guy!!!

@TuringMachine001 5 жыл бұрын

I've been trying to think of mathematical models for genealogies because of the book _Sapiens._ This video came at the right time!

@ThePeterDislikeShow 5 жыл бұрын

I want to time travel far into the future when I've become everyone's ancestor.

@limepop340 4 жыл бұрын

Getting a little ahead of yourself, are you? There are no guarantees, and certainly not in this regard.

@M4rtingale 5 жыл бұрын

OMG notification for this video came the same minute the news notification came out. Well played 😂

@Gryfer00 5 жыл бұрын

100% chance that was intentional.

@M4rtingale 5 жыл бұрын

Of course it was intentional. That’s why I wrote “well played”.

@CCRLH85 5 жыл бұрын

@Terry White While I'm not a citizen of the United Kingdom, I have looked into the studies of the costs of England's royal family vs. the costs of giving them back the property they've lent to the nation in exchange for their position and pay as well as the studies of how much they pull in in tourism money. They seem to be a net benefit to the UK, at least from a monetary point of view. They cost **much** less than they bring in to the government and the cost (in government property that would suddenly belong to the Windsor family instead) would be quite detrimental to a UK going through the own goal that is Brexit.

@OCinneide 5 жыл бұрын

@Terry White tiocfaidh ar la

@NoriMori1992 5 жыл бұрын

@Terry White Being condescending and ignorant is never an attractive trait either, yet you seem to be very fond of it.

@giorgibliadze1151 4 жыл бұрын

Hi from Georgia, I saw our king there, david IV the builder... Thanks I felt so proud!

@mattsadventureswithart5764 4 жыл бұрын

That is a gorgeous sentiment to end.

@erictaylor5462 5 жыл бұрын

Growing up I had a friend whose mother was from England, and his father was from Texas, and he was growing up in California.

@oldcowbb 5 жыл бұрын

"a beautiful sentiment to end with" *VIDEO ENDS*

@jmich7 5 жыл бұрын

Totally wonderful

@raziel29a 3 жыл бұрын

Ye olden times -> NOW. Brilliant, yet subtle touch. Never stop doing such stuff just because most people will not notice. Some will and they usually love it ;)

@anandsuralkar2947 5 жыл бұрын

I am very happy to meet u sir. I belonge to royal family

@OKANGUVEN99 5 жыл бұрын

+I am very happy to meet u sir. +I belonge to royal family -Ohh. Which one? +Which ever you like

@Abdega 5 жыл бұрын

What a coincidence! Me too!

@BrianSpurrier 4 жыл бұрын

Whenever I think about our most recent common ancestor, I just think about places like north sentinel island where they have not contacted any other people for thousands of years and basically how insane it is that we all were together at one point, and then some people left and apparently just forgot there were more of us

@perappelgren948 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

@richardsleep2045 5 жыл бұрын

Great stuff. I said I should be King. But seriously a fascinating intro to a puzzling and probably misunderstood subject. Brilliant observation at the end :)

@HL-iw1du 5 жыл бұрын

I’m not so sure about this. A lot of populations have been very isolated.

@aspiringscientificjournali1505 4 жыл бұрын

The true point would be the generation before the first migration

@vancemccarthy2554 4 жыл бұрын

But they got there from somewhere.

@LukeMotionz 4 жыл бұрын

You don't think humans just popped up in random places right?

@foxbutterfly-eden7030 3 жыл бұрын

I was checking the comments to see if anyone else thought this because clearly not “everyone” is a “royal” descendant. There are very isolated indigenous peoples all around the world. Royalty is a cultural concept that is relatively recent in human history, and it wasn't recognized by all cultures.

@MrUnkownUnknown 2 жыл бұрын

Well many indigenous groups, (especially the younger generations of today) are far less isolated.

@AbiGail-ok7fc 5 жыл бұрын

Considering the long isolation of the Aboriginals and that it's been a while since there was a land bridge between Asia and American, it seems pretty unlikely the most common recent ancestor lived only a few hundred to a few thousand years ago.

@dfmayes 5 жыл бұрын

I agree. I see the math but but it doesn't seem to match reality 100%.

@MrGeencie 5 жыл бұрын

@@dfmayes actually this proves the biblical timeline of earth's history

@aspiringscientificjournali1505 4 жыл бұрын

Its kinda funny tho becuase it means at any point of migration If its before time of all common ancestors Was the true all common ancestors Sing everyone that left was part of the breeding population till that point

@sparshjohri1109 3 жыл бұрын

Except that the Aboriginals and Native Americans of today likely share ancestry with people from other continents. Considering that the Americas were discovered in 1492 and Australia was discovered in 1770, there's been a lot of time for ancestral lines to mix. It wouldn't even have to be much: just a single ancestor from another continent would make them directly descended from the most recent common ancestor.

@tafazziReadChannelDescription 2 жыл бұрын

what about sentinel island? I don't think 7000 years are enough fkr a single common ancestor between us and them

@recycledminis 2 жыл бұрын

This is so interesting.

@EnriqueFiset 5 жыл бұрын

Great video, 26th cousin!

@criskity 5 жыл бұрын

I'm descended from King Edward III too, but that's not surprising. Pretty much everyone with English ancestry is.

@TheDeen987 5 жыл бұрын

To all my cousins : have a great day

@joelstock94 5 жыл бұрын

This is such a great channel!

@moradan81 2 жыл бұрын

"Once every 2000 years". Man! That was genius.

@flamedragon283 5 жыл бұрын

I don't think everyone is related to the von Habsburgs, their family tree is a family circle

@Electric-Gal 4 жыл бұрын

No no, it's a family wreath.

@Kateypops 5 жыл бұрын

This excites me enough to bore other people with my weird knowledge

@wilsden 5 жыл бұрын

same

@davidwilkie9551 Жыл бұрын

Perfectly true.., too be respected as such.

@IlTrojo 5 жыл бұрын

This is by far the most awe inspiring video I've seen in quite some time. Just one remark though: if you apply the model to generations of, say, 1.000.000 people, it is true that virgin births become rarer, but you will still expect one per generation, so they will keep occurring.