Family Tree
Jan. 4th, 2018 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vital_solFamily Tree (not to be confused with binary tree, binary search tree, trie etc.)
Excerpts:
>> Sometime at the end of the 13th century lived a man or woman from whom all Europeans could trace ancestry.
>> Our family trees are not trees at all, but entangled meshes.
>> But this ancestral expansion is not borne back ceaselessly into the past. If it were, your family tree when Charlemagne was Le Grand Fromage would harbor around 137,438,953,472 individuals on it—more people than were alive then, now, or in total.
http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/youre-descended-from-royalty-and-so-is-everybody-else
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/01/your-family-past-present-and-future.html
Excerpts:
>> Sometime at the end of the 13th century lived a man or woman from whom all Europeans could trace ancestry.
>> Our family trees are not trees at all, but entangled meshes.
>> But this ancestral expansion is not borne back ceaselessly into the past. If it were, your family tree when Charlemagne was Le Grand Fromage would harbor around 137,438,953,472 individuals on it—more people than were alive then, now, or in total.
http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/youre-descended-from-royalty-and-so-is-everybody-else
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/01/your-family-past-present-and-future.html
