Re: What identifies a human? (DNA? Artifacts? ....)
Bill Frix (wfrix@engr.jbu.edu)
Mon, 3 Mar 1997 07:15:24 GMT-5> All of them. I would like to point out that if you exclude brother/sister
> marriage then within about 3 generation, everyone is a descendant of
> everyone in a family of only 3 founding families. The lines below are all
> possible matings between the 3 families for 3 generations if brother/sister
> marriages are excluded and most societies do prohibit those.
>
>
> shem japheth Ham
>
> child child child
> |\ /|\ /|
> | \/ | \/ |
> | / \ | / \ |
> gchild gchild gchild
> |\ /|\ /|
> | \/ | \/ |
> | / \ | / \ |
> ggchild ggchild ggchild
>
> What this would mean is that we are ALL descended from ALL families. There
> is no us/them issue here.
Not so, that these are all the possible matings. You have left out
the possibility that the descedents of Ham (for example)
intermarried. It is possible that there was no intermarriage
between Shem's descendents, Ham's descendents and Japheth's
descendents.
William M. Frix
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